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PATRIOTIC LYNDON. 



History of Many Leading Organizations, 
Lyndon, Kansas. 



C. R. GREEN, 
Member Kansas State Historical Society. 



LYNDON, KANSAS, 1897. 



PATRIOTIC LYNDON. 



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A HISTORY 



Of Several Organizations at the County Seat of Osage County, Kansas the 
Last Seventeen Years, Which Have Made It a 



^^Patriotie Lyndon 



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CONTAINING 

The Roster of About 250 or More Ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors of the Late 

War, Who Have or Do Yet Gather at Lyndon for Decoration Days, 

With Their Post Office Addresses When Known, and In Cases 

of Death, Their Widows and Children. 



TOGETHER WITH 

The Roster and FEistory of the Womans Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans. 
Sketches of the Commanders of Lyndon Post G. A. R., Prison Expe- 
riences, History of the Osage County Soldiers Battalion, Capt. 
Whinrey's Valley Brook Veteran Company, Capt. Joe 
Stavely's Lyndon Guards, History of Several 
Lyndon Band Organizations and List 
of Members. 

Names of Those Whose Graves We Decorate in the Lyndon Cemetery, and 
Appendix for Corrections. 



By CHARLES R. GREEN, 

Late a Member of the 101st O. V. I., Army of the Cumberland. 

Member of the Kansas State Histerical Society. 



2=:EeiCE 35 CEISTTS. 



LYNDON, KANS. 

C. R. GREEN, PUBLISHER. 

1897. 



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P 11 E F A C E . 

Comrades and friends, the following 60 pages are drawn from my History 
or "Annals of Lyndon" and are offered to you by itself in pamphlet form at a 
price within reach of all, under the title of "Patriotic Lyndon," because, as 
you will see by the table of contents, it relates only to such organizations as 
have tended to build up patriotism to our country in Lyndon. 

Valley Brools: township and the country around was largely settled in an 
early day after the war by the old soldiers of our union. It has always been at 
tiie front in patriotism, and recognizing that the maintenance ot these several 
organizations are conducive to the highest level of citizenship in our commun- 
ity, I have at infinite pains, spent all my spare time the last three months in 
examining records, copying rolls and interviewing older residents to get the 
matter in some shape to be printed. I have been as careful as possible, and 
so has my compositor; we have compared the notes and read proof repeatealy, 
but I am well aware how persistent figures and letters are in getting out of 
place in printing, and after the edition is printed there is only one remedy, and 
that is to make correction and put it in the appendix. Therefore, if you find 
a record wrong, look in the last ot the book for corrections, and if not there, 
promptly notify me so that I can print the correction in the supplementary 
appendix and furnish it to you some months later. 

I have introduced 13 war sketches of the Commanders of Lyndon Post, G. 
A. R., and Comrade Haas' prison story. They give one not familiar with war 
history a faint idea of what war meant during our four years of the Eebellion. 
The story of prison life down south where thousands of our noble soldier boys 
were deliberately starved to death or heid in unhealthy pr'soas until diseases 
had planted their fatal seeds of death, can never be told. 

The long weary months of life in our hospitals through the north, ended 
only by death, is the only record of tens of thousand who went forth in the 
morn of life to tight one enemy and were swept to the grave by a greater one 
— disease — is another story that cannot be told. 

But there is a story that can be told, and for 32 years since the war the old 
soldiers have been telling it plainly that~"Treason was not right,'* and that 
those hot headed ^southerners who tried to tear this union to pieces to build 
up slavery were whipped and that they surrendered with Genl. Robt. E. Lee 
to Genl. U. S. Grant at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, and that the Union-lovmg 
people of our land do not propose to let this government be run by those who. 
tried to destroy it and the noble defenders of the union going down into beg;, 
gars' graves. 

.Shall the service of 2,285,942 men (100,000 of which never lived to see the 
the close of the war) from our Northern land, engaged for four years and two ' 
months in 2,800 or more skirmishes, engagements and battles, every one of 
them at the cost of some one or more union life, be a useless sacrifice to our 
country's good? To the youth growing up in our homes I leave the answer. 

Ever let us be a 'Patriotic Lyndon." 

C. R. GREEN, 

Lyndon, Kansas, April 10, 18!)-7. 



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INDEX. 

Page 

Roster of Indiana soldiers 102 

" of Ohio ,soldiers 103 

" of Illinois soldiers, 104 

" of Iowa soldiers lOfi 

" of Massachasetts soldiers 107 

" of Xew York soldiers 107 

" of Pennsylvania soldiers 107 



of Michigan soldiers 

of Xew Jersey soldiers 

of Wisconsin soldiers 

of Kentucky soldiers 

of West Virginia soldiers, 

of Missouri soldiers 

of Tennessee soldiers , 

of Kansas soldiers 

of Colorado soldiers 



.108 
.108 
.108 
.108 
.108 
.108 
.109 
.109 
.109 



" of Miscellaneous list of sol- 

diers living in the townships 

around Lvndon, who attend 

the G. A. Pv. at Lyndon 110 

AVomans Eelief Corps X'o. 146 Ill 

Capt. Milt Whinrey's Lyndon Veter- 

an Co., 1881. List of members . 113 

History of organization of Lyndon 

PostXo. 19, G. A. P 114 

Sketch of Commander Sol Bower. . .116 



I X D E X . 

Page 

Sketch of Com. D. H. Danhauer 118 

Decoration Day at Lyndon— 1881. . .120 

Sketch of Com. J. M. Whinrey 121 

" of Com. J. IL Howe 122 

" of Com. Geo, Weber 121 

History of Osage Co, Battalion 127 

List of G. A. E. Posts in county 139 

Sketch of Com. A. M. Sandersoa. . . .130 

• " of Com: C. R. Green 132 

Prison Life in Dixie 138 

Lyndon Guards, J.H. IStavely Capt. .111 
Columbian Camp Xo, 126, 8. of Y., .142 
History of organization of S. of Y. .144 
Sketch of Com. X. Hollings worth. .144 

The Lyndon Bands— 1880-*84 146 

The Bald Head Band— 1896 150 

The Sons of Yeterans Band 151 

Sketch of Com, J. H. Buckman 152 

A historic picture of Lvndon, G. A. 

R. Post Decoration Day— '84.154 

The Trials of an Army Recruit 155 

Sketch of Com, David F. Coon 156 

" of Com. Wm, Rand 157 

Xames of soldiers buried in the Lyn- 

don cemetery to this date 158 

Corrections and appendix 161 



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C M xM A X D E R S 


PRESIDE X^TS 


LYNDON POST NO. 19, DEPT. KA.N. G. A. R. 


W. R. C. NO. 146, DEPT. OF KANS. 


The Post was organized in 1880. 


The Corps was organized February 2 


J. M. Whinrey, 1880-'81. 


1887, and Mrs. Etta Howe install- 


W. A. Cotterman, 1882. 




John H. Howe, 1883-87. 


ed the first President. 


Sol Bowers, 1888. 




George Weber, 1889. 


Mrs, Etta Howe, 3 years. 


John H. Howe, 1890. 


Mrs. Sophia Barnes, 1890. 


Xels HoUings worth, 1891. 


Mrs. Martha HoUings worth, 1891. 


D. H. Danhauer, 1892. 


Mrs, Sarah E. Drew, 1892. 


J . H, Buckman, 1893. 


Mrs. Millie Weber, 1893. 


A. M. Sanderson, 1894. 


Mrs. Anna Tomberiin, 1894. 


C. R. Green, 1895. 


Mrs. Lizzie Keenan, 1895. 


D. P. Coon, 1896. 


Mrs. Mary Cotterman, 1896. 


Wm. Rand, 1897. 


Mrs. Anna Olcott, 1897, 



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ludiaua Soldiers. 

John W. Keenan, Co. E; a G. A. R. 

Nathaniel Y. Buck, 1st. Lieut. Co. B; a G. A. R. 

H. B. Child, Co. H; a G. A. R.; died Aug. 17, 1892; buried at his 

home, Walton, Harvey county, Kan., where his family lives. 

John Leffler, Co. A; a G. A. R.; removed to Muncie, Ind. 

Israel N. Morris, Sergt. Co. K; living now at Quenemo, Kan. 

Geo. W. Oard, Sergt. Co. F; died February 28, 1893. 

Edward Shideler, Corp. Co. K; a G. A. R. 

Austin M. Sanderson, Co, E; a G. A. R. 

J. A. Sanderson, Co. E; a G. A. R.; moved back to Ind., 1895. 

Amos L. Wilson, Co. K; a G. A. R.; lost a limb at Nashville. 

L. T. Wilson, drummer Co. K; a G. A. R. 

James Wells, Co. D, also in 13th Cav. Co. H; a G. A. R. 

Geo. F. Burkdoll, Co. F; removed to southern Kansas. 

j John H. Crowe, died March 28, 1882; his widow, Lydia A. Crowe 
I removed to Kansas City, 1890. 

Oscar Keenan, Co. B, also 57th Ind.; removed to Topeka. 

Phillip Leffler, Co. B; removed to Royerton, Ind. 

Warren W. Morris, Capt. Co. K; a G. A. R.; Washington, D. C. 

A. W. Sargent, Co. I; removed to Anthony, Kansas, 
Lew Sargent. Co. K; removed to Enid, Oklahoma. 

B. F. Sloniker. Co. B; died February 12, 1894. 

\ Archibald H. Neff. Go's. E and K; now of Eaton, Indiana. 

J. M. Carson, Co. A; a G. <1. R. 

Daniel Heron, Co. B; removed to Lane, Kansas. 

Amos G. Morris, Co. K, removed to Ocheltree, Johnson Co., Kan. 

Geo. W. Morris, Capt. Co. G, also 7 Vet. Reserve Corps, U. S. '64. 

Lives in Junction township. P. O., Vassar, Kansas. 
Andy B. Wire, Co. H; removed to Indiana, 1896. 
W. B. Wright, Co. D; removed to Topeka in 1886. 
Frank A. Downs; removed East. 
Geo. W. Roberts, Co. E; removed some years ago. 
Garret Voorhis, Co. D, dead; his widow, Mrs. Melinda Voorhis 

lived in Lyndon in 1890, has since removed, 
las. H. Asher, Co. A; removed to Greeley, Kansas. 
Newton S. Wire, Sergt. Co. C; a G. A. R. 

Rev. W. P. Elliott, Co. I, Gen. Lew Wallace's Zouave Regiment. 
O. T. Hamlin, Co, G; Post-office, Vassar, 



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4 Chv. John r. Urie, Capt. Co. F. Trobate Judge from 1895— 99. 
84 " Phillip Wingate, died Dec. 12 1873. His father, James Wingate, 
lives at AJb-iny, Dclewara Co., Indiana. 

OHIO SOLDIERS. 

David F. Coon, Co. H ; a G.z\. R. 

John M Barnes, Co. A; a G. A. K. 

John T. Andrews, Co. A; removed befoie 1893. 

D. H. Danhauer, Adjt.of Regt.; a G. A. R. Died March 14, 1896. 

Tne widow and daughter, Mrs, Wilbur Greene, and also son, 

Mr. H. Dinhauer, live here. 

Joshua Evans, Co B; a G. A. R. 

N ck Frankhouser, Co. T; Sheriif 1890-94. Removed to Osage City. 

. Horace L. Goodrich, Co. K; a G. A. R. 

Chas. R. Green, Co. A; a G. A R 

) Jerry Hus^ey, Cr». D. Regis er of Deeds in 1988-92; removed to 
\ Line jln t^p., WjLiamsbuig, P. O. ^ 

John A Hooper, Co. G; removed to parts unknown. 

} Abr.iham Primer, Co's. I and H; a G. A R. 

Ft-rdinand Ringhisen, Co, F. 

Noah Surface, Co. B; now of Junction twp , Yassar, P. O. 
John S'arkey, Co. E; a G. A. R. 
M. C. Talyor, Co, G; removed to Paris, III. 1891. 
Thomas Williams, Co, G; a G. A R. 
J. M. Kirkbride, Co I. 

Simon Siples, Co. B; died Oct. 21, 1874. His widow Mrs. Siples, lives 
at Kaasas City; Mrs. John Lord, a dai., lives Wit'i her mother. 
54 " Martin Bannon, Co. K; died Jan. 12, 1874. Osgoods, of Quenemo, 

are relatives. 
181 " Fred Siuers, Co. A; died S pt. 16 1877. His widow, Mary Jumper 

Sauers, married Mr. Stevens of Melvern. 
192 " Wallace Green, Co. H; died May 16, 1887. His widow, Phebe Green, 
died 1895. Tbere are four children living. 

129 " A. W.Newton, Co. A; died Sept. 20, 1887. Amos Worral, Lyndon, 

is a friend. 
15 " James P. D cker, 1st Lieut.; removed. 

15 " } Lyman W. Welch, Co's. H and E; removed to Horton, Kansas. 
46 " f 

143 " John J. Robertson, Co. Bt removed to Woes' er, Ohio. 
7 Cav. John C. Rankin, Co. E; Treas. of Osage Co., 18S0-S'4; removed to 
Quenemo, Kansas; a G. A R. 



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7 iQft. G eo. Thomas, Co. D; removed to Colorado Springs, Col. 
26 " B. Albaugh, Co. A; removed to Osage City. 

58 O. Inft. J. L. Clemence, Co. G; removed to Ohio, 1890. 
49 " Jesse DeLong, removed to Florence, Kansas. 

44 " ) A. H. Criley, Co's. I and I; a G. A. . R 

8 Cav. s 

53 Inft. Sam'l J. McMurray, Co. A; removed to Nebraska. 
140 " Wm. Rand, Co. C; a G. A. R. 
156 " John B. McGaw, Co. A. 
74 " Rev.D.M. Sleeth,Co.K. 
Irregulars From Ohio: 

E D. Atwell, in the Navy; removed to Barlingame. Kan. 188.S 
an old Roster gives him as Co. A, ITS O. V. I 
T. E. Dempster, U. S. Navy, "Hudson," 'Tortsmoiith," 32 
months; died May 12, 1891, widow married Mr. FI<»bhs, 1895 
now live at Pomona, Kansas. Daughter, Miud Demp^t^r, 
lives at Lyndon. 
F. A. Capper, 1st class fireman, U. S. Gunboat, "Na'd", Marine 
Service; aG. A. R. 

Wm. H. Jones Bvt. L't. Col., Additional Paymaster, TJ. S. A. 
Illinois Soldiers. 

Joseph H. Buckman, Co B; a G. A. R ; coun^y cle k l890-'92 

Nathaniel G. Currv. Co.G, and also in Co K of the 
Cav. Reg , a G. A. K. 

Samuel Collins, Co. K; removed to St Joseph, Mo. 
W. A, Cot erman, Co E; a G. A. R. 
John M. Fleming, Co D. 

Robert S. Fleming, Co. C; died July 29, 1889; left a widow, Alvira A , 
Fleaaing, w^ho died Nov. 4, 1895. Two children, O. A. and Cora, 
are living. 
Inft, / Herbert Goodman, Co's. E and A; a farmer. 
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I Mich lel Hannigm, Co's. G and C; w s working in -he tow^nship in 
^ April, 1889— has since removed to another place. 

/ Wm Haas, Co's B a id D: \S}4 months a or soner 

S Camp Tyler, Texas. Also in the 2l3t. M y. S. M. a G. A. R 

I James H^^nt )n, Co's. B and D; also a piisoner wi h Wm Hias at 
) Camp Tyler. 

John R. Hentoa, corpora\ Co. B; a G. A. R. 

George S. Iliwk ns, Co. G. 



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33 Inffc. Geo. W. Riggs, Co K; died Jan. 20, 1882. Widow died since; both 

are buried in the Dane Cenaetery. Three children are living. 

Lewis, one of the children, liv< s with Andrew Peterson. 
II ■' Eiija^i Woodall. Sergt. Co I; a G. A. R. 
123 ■• Wilder's Mti. Brigade, Elijah Ileiges, Co C; a G. A. R. Removed 

to Charleston, 111. 1891. P. O. now Fair Grove. Coles Co , 111. 
123 " Mtd. Inft. Francis McWhinney, Co. A; lost a limb in the war. Q. 

M. of Lyndon Pos: Xo. 19; a G. A. R. 

) M't'd, Inft., S. L. McWhlnnev, Go's. A and K; a G. A. R. 
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J. Wm. Brooks, Co. II; died here 1873. 

Geo. W. Pryer, Co. B; died he-e 1871 Mrs. Tiffany is a sister. 

S im'l R. Shoemaker; died Oct. 27, 1879. His widow md. J. T. Un- 
derw 00 I Florence, Ka i.; Mrs. Florence Blackwell of Ljndon, is a 
daughter. 

Ne's. Ilollingsworth. Co. E; a (t. A. R. 

Jas. A. MoDonaid, Sergt. Co. G; removed several years ago. 
Chas. Manro=e, Go's. L, E, and G; residing now at Osage City. 

laaac Morehead, Co. K; removed some years sinc;^. 

Francis Courtney, Co. D; died Feb. 10. 1880. 

John Pet^igrew, Co. A: died June 17 1881. A son. Munroe Pctti- 
grew. lives at Melvern. 

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7 CiV. Dr. A. C. Tyler. C ). K; lived here until 1879, ^vneu he returned to 
Canton, II'., wh^re he died. His widow, P armelia L. Tyler, lives 
here. Wm. Tyler, a son, is in V, S. M lil Service, Ch cago, III. 

J. T. Underwood. Co. B; removed to Florence, Kansas 

Dr. R. H. Chittenden, Co. H. also Hosj ial Steward, U.S. A.: now 
removed to Mound City, Holt Co , Mo ; a G. A. R. 

S. H. Fuller, Sergt. Co. G: County Sheriff 1886-88; a G. A. R. now 
lives at Carbonda'e, Kaisa>. 

Gark E. Henderson, Co. II; liv -s i'l Chicago. He is a son in-law of 

- M Waddle, v\ho iiveUiere. 

Sidney S. McCurdy, Co. E; removed to Arkansis some years ago. 

Malconi F. Smi'h. Sergt. Maj.. and Adjt. of the Regt.; Ist. Lieut, of 
Co.E; also in the 11th U. S. Inf t. Adjt. of the Lyndon Post G, 
A. R., 1886 Removed to Ottawa and died there Feb. 10. 1896. 
Left a widow, and a son and darghter, 
146 " Sila^ B. Tower, To. A; Chaplain of the Lynion Post G'. A. R. One 
of Lyndon's ear^y settlers. Died at the Soldiers' Home, Leaven- 
worth, Kan., March 10. 1891; age 78. - 



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20 Inft. J. Milton Whinrey, Capt. Co. F; in 36 battles commencing with 
Forts FTenry and Done's n. Sheriff of th s county 1884-86: a G. 
A. R. Lives now at Passaic, Kearney Co. Kan. 
15 " N. E. Wood, Co. I; former'y a G. A. E. here; removed to Ocalla, 
Florida, 1891. 

W. Hayes, Co. B; removed 1883, to place unknown. 

F. J. Hyde, Co. C; removed 1883, to place unknown. 

Horace W. Jenness, Co. G; also sutler of tbe Regt. Register of 
Deeds, Osage Co., 1880-84; now lives with his son, Fred Jenness, 
1133 Monroe St., Topeka, Kansas. 

L. D. Barton, Co. D; removed 1884. 

J. B. Montgomery, Sergt. Co. B; removed. 

Alex. Pennington, died at Prairie City, 1879. The widow, Mrs 
Elizah P— ., lived Lere 1883; now removed. 
124 " David C. Cawood, Co. C; belonged to Lyndon G. A. R., 1890; re- 
moved East. 

59 " ) E. Ingerpol', Co's. F and C; a broom maker in Lyn-ion, atid a G. A. 
89 " f R.-1890; removed. 

85 *• H. C. Swisher, Co. H. Sheriif 1892-96. 
26 " Jaob Ward, Co. F; a G. A. R. 
26 " Arthur Basel, Co. K; a G. A. R. 

J. H. Harper, Co. F; nov» of Junction Twp., P. 0., Vassar, KHUsas. 
Ge« rge Painter, Co. I; who, with hi »' if e reside with their son-in- 
law. Rev. Leigh. Mr. Painter, who is now ^3, is th^' o dfst mem- 
ber of the G. A. R. Post. 
C. S. Bellows, Co. A; moved he-e from Douglas ^o. ab< ut 1894. 
H. Wakefield, Co. K; lived here in 1896, with Ids family, but now 
removed to his old home in Morris Co. 
45 " Thomas M. Wallace, Co H; formerly a G. A R., here; removed to 
Salem, Fulton Co.. Ark., 1888. 

Irregulars of Illinois service. 

Elisha Olbott Sr., was in an Til. Regt. of volimteers, 1832, during 
the Black Hawk war. He was an ear y settler here; died July 
3rd., 1878. Ollcott Bros., Lyndon, are sons. 

Iowa Soldiers. 

4 Inft. Dr. Elbridge B. Fenn. Hospital Steward; dipd May 30, 1892. 
Widow, Mrs. E. W. Fenn, and daughter, Mrs. E. Waddle, live 
htre. Geo. Fenn, a son, lives at Williamsburg, Kan. 

2 Cav. Solomon Bower, Co. II; a G. A. R. Home here, residing temporar 

iiy at Salt Lake City, Utah. 
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Charley A. Darling, Co. A. 

Rev. Eli F. Hoi and, Corp., Co. C; removed now to Maytttri, Km. 
Leeraan Mo )re. Corp. Co. D; removed. 

Jo eph W Hammond, Co. C; removed in 1880, now in Oklahoma. 
\Vm. (jib on, Co. E; died March 30, 1881. His widow, Maria Gib- 
son aud grown children, live near Quenemo, Kan. 
JohQ M. Arnoll, Co. E; a G. A R Removed in 1890. 
Rev. Geo W. Browning, Co. G; here in 1883, now at Council Grove, 
Kansas. 

Massachusetts Soldie rs, 

Inft } John H. Ilowe ( Mass. ), Go's. I and F. Commander of Lyndon 
" )' Post G. A R . 6 years Col. of Osage Co. Balt'l. 4 years. Re- 
moved t» his eastern home and died there June 24, 1894. His 
widow, M s. Etta Howe, who was President of the Lyndon W. 
R. C. for 3 years, now resides at Marlborough. Mass. 

Samuel H. Holyoke, Co. K; a G. A. R. 

N. H., Co. C, G^o. W. Harold, killed by a bull Aug. 31, 1885. His 
widow married John Tice. 

New York Soldiers. 

176 Inft. S. E. Sh pman, Co. F; died in Oklahoma. Widow, Mrs. Maria Ship- 

man lives here, also son Laverne and other children. 
4 A t'y. Geo. W Doty, Co. H. Probate Judge 1889-91; a G. A. R.: removed 

to Burlingame. 
4 Cav. Xath t! in' D. Fairbanks, Q. M. Sergt., Co. K; a G. A. R. Died at 

Fort Worth, Texas, July 1st, 1892; family removed; dau. inX. Y 

27 I ft I .Tohn Foster ( Ff nn's cousin ), Capt. Co. B; Lieut. Col, of the Reg.. 

28 " i a G. A. R.-removetf. 

I Art'y. Charhs E. Woodward, Co. D; a G. A. R. 
6 Cav. J. J. Clark, Co. F; a G. A. R. 

Pennsylvania Soldiers. 

211 Inft. David Findly, Corp., Co. I; removed prior to 1889. 

135 " Rev. John P. Barber, Co. D; a G. A. R.; removed to Emporia, Kan. 

9 CiV. } James R. Campbell, Co. H; Sergt.Co. F. 

177 Inft. ^' 

202 " Wm. H. Green, Co K: a G. A. R. 

II '* James S, Kennedy, 1st. Lieul^, Co. D. 
11 " George Weber, Sergt. Co. D; a G. A. R. 

105 " Fred Super, Co. C; a G. A. R. Removed to Pa. 
David Uler, Co. K. Penn. Militia. 



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MrcriTGAN Soldiers. 

11 Cav. LewU A. Reynolds, Co. F; a G. A. R. Died Jan^ 21, 1893. \ s-»n 
i3 liviQg. 

10 *' Harry Ford, Co. I. ' 

e> Inft. } Walter Terrill, Co's. C and H; removed to Oklahoma. 
1 Cav. \ 

1 Inft. Moses Terrill, Midi. Engineers, Co. F. 

Xew Jersey Soldiers. 

11 Inft D L. H^nd-n.^ot, Co. E; a G. \ R Reraoved to Bolivar, Mo , 1895 

11 " D ivid Lundy, Co. B, aho Co. C, of th-. 12tli X. J.; removed 

Wisconsin Soldiers. 

2 Cav. Wheeler Gilges, Co. F: a G. A. R. Removed to Line In twp., Ros^- 

mont, P. O. 
17 Inft. W. J. Loose, Co. H ; removed to southern Kansas. 

Kentl^cky Soldiers. 
37 Inft. Andrew J. Cox, Sergt. Co. G; removed to Mo , 1891. 

1 Art'y. W. M. May, Batt'y E, 1st Ky. Light Art^. 

West Virginia Soldiers. 

12 Inft. George Bane, C\ C; removed to Fairfax twp , Lyadon P. O. 
15 " Jame^ Rogers, Co.I. 

3 ■' / John r'ourtney C> A; reinU=5todin Co F, B'h Civ. Di^d Ma-'^h 14, 
6 Cav. \' 1889; his wfdow. Josephine Courtney, and th'-e*^ children removed 

to Maneip, Iniiana. 

2 Cav. Henry Dunkle, Co. D. 

1st and 2Qd Xeb. Cav., Aaron M. Back, Co. G; a G A. R. 

Missouri Soldiers. 

13 Inft. Pa'ric^ Dougherty, Co. H, ai=o n ^he oth Mo. Inft ; a G. A R Re. 

moved to Osage City; diel there Feb. 27, 1893; buried i i the Lyn- 
don Cemetery. 

5 C »v } James A.' Reading, Co'^ I ^-rd G; a G A R.; 7emovfd to Lawence; 
13 Inft; i d'el th^^r- Oct 14. 1895. H-eHistei ui III , bu^ got p'U mto a 

Mo. Regt Tie widow, Mrs, Ellen Reading, ani grown chiliren. 

Jive in Lawrence, Kansas. 

27 " Jabez Adam?, Co. L; a G, A. R. Supt of Fub'ic Ins^ruc'.i -n, 0«age 

Co , 1885-89. Removei to Lincoln twp , Rosemont. P. O. 

32 •• J.-hn W. Mclntire, Co D; removed 1888. 

9 Inft. Moses Bradford, Mo. Sta^e Militia. 

] "' R »bprt 11. Wynne, Sergt. Co. I; Mo. State Mli i\. 

11 " John Gibson, C \ C. Mo. State Militia; reraovei. 

21 " Leander Kiml) ill,Co. FC, Mo. S'ate^Iili'ia: removed to Melvern. Kan. 



109. 

TENNessEE Soldiers. 

2 luft. James M. Kittrell, Co. A, E. Tenn., also Co. E 18 Ky. Inft.; a G. A. 
11. Been blind for many years. 

4 " Ferdinand Singletary, 1st Lieut, of Co. B; died May 4, 1881. His 

widow, Mrs. Mary R. Singleiary, remarried some years later to 
Oil. C. Deaver. 

5 " John E. Po3, Co. C; a G. A. R. Eemived to Hutchison, Kan. 

Kansas Soldiers. 

2 Inft. j Josiah R. Drew, Co. D,and Sergt. of Co. L-'^Kan. M't'd. Inft, 1st 

11 " I Lieut. 18 U. S. C. r.; a G. A. R. Treas. of the Co. 1888-92; re- 
moved to Burling'ime, 1892. 

16 Cav. Benj. Tomberlin, Co. K; removed to O.ta^a. 

5 '* JohQ Wolt Corp. Co. M: removed to Kansas City. 

2 " Dr. J. A. Willey, removtd to Mo. 

15 " J. H. Rynerson, Co.G; died April 7, 1889. John Rynerson is a son, 
and Mrs. Frank Richards, a daughter. 

13 luft. Robert J. Wynte, Co, A; died Oct. 21, 1871. Widow, Xancy J. 
Wynne, lives with her dau. Mrs. Viola Smith, Helena, Montana, 

13 " P. 0. Roberts, Ser^t, Co G: in 1890 reaiovedto Nemaha Co., Kan, 
A dau, Mrs. J, McXichols, lives here, 

11 " and Cav., John L. Bristow, Co. A. 

11 " S. B. Enderton, Co. E. Register of Deeds of Osage Cc. 1876-80: re- 
moved to Melvern, 

Kansas State Militia, 
23 " Dr. Geo. W. Miller, Co. D; called out in defence of Kansas, at the 

time of the Price Raid. 
23 " W, A. Madaris, Price Raid. Kan. S. M. 
23 " EUas A. Barrett, Q. M. of the Begt.: died July 5, 1880. Widow 

Sarah F. Barrett, and son, Will Barrett, live here. 
23 " Delos Watson, Price Raid Kan. S. M ; died June 16, 1887. Widow* 
Amanda Watson, lives in Lyndon, Mrs. J, H. Adams, Ottawa* 
Kan., is a dau. Two sons, E. O. and Dennis Walson, live.here. 
Colorado Soldiers, 

2 Cav. Geo. E. Dorman, farrier, Co. M; removtd 1894 to Lincoln twp. 
Waverly. P. O.: a G, A. R. 

2 " } Olliver P. Rathburn. Go's. C and E: last known lived at Quenemo. 
1 " ) 

5 " Jonn H. Sowell, Sergt., Co. M: wojnded in six places; now of Junc- 
ti n twp., Tasssr, P. O. 



110. 

Some of the soldiers who ahe ( or haye been ) members of the 
Lyndon Post, but who live outside of lyndon and Valley 
Brook township. 
Arthur Basel, Co. K, 26 111. Tnft.; Junction twp., Vassar. 
August Storbeck, Co. G; 10 Minn. Inft. and 4 Minn. Batt'y., Yas^ar. 
John Boyd, Co. C; 14 West Ya. Inft., Yassar. 
Wesley A. J. Maverty, Co. C; 132 Ind laft., Yassar. 
Capt. G. VV. Morri?, Co. G; 83 Ind. Inft., Y^issar. 
John H. Sowell, Co. M; 2nd Col., Cav., Yassar. 
John A. Bland, Co. G^ 2 Minn, Cav.; reniovc;d. 
Cyrus L. Fix, Co. B; 9 Kan. Cav., Fairfax twp., Lyndon, P. O. 
J. S. lioc'ky, Co. C; 105 Penn. Inft,, Fairfax twp., Lyndon, P. O. 
Geo. W. McMillio, Co. G; 70 Ind. InfL, Melvero. 
Dr. W. C Sweezy, Surge-n, 140 Ind. Inft., Olivet. 
L W. Powell, Co G; 110 Ohio Infr, , Olivet twp Osage City, P. O. 
Chas. Cochran, Co. F; 12 Kan jnf r., 1st Lieut, and acting Adjt. of the Kegt 

Olivet. 
S. B. EndertoD, Co. E; 11 Kan. Inft., Melvern. 
A. L. Lanning, Co. C; 122 111. Inft., Melvern. 
P. R. Glas?, Co. D; 13 Conn. Inft., removed to Melverr, -hfi Cb in 1894, to 

Mammoth Spring^', Ark. 
Jacob and Jonathan Hunt, privates of Co. G.; 10 Ohio Cav. They lived in 

Fairfax twp , were members of the Lyndon Post in 1889. I think shey 

now live in Osage Ci'y. 
Wil on B Henry, Co. F; 125 IT S. Colorfd Troop— 3 yrars service on the 

Plains find in New Mexico 1865-68, Lyndon. 

PtEMAKKS. 

B F. SloDiker, Co, B, 42 lud. Inft ; di-d at Qiienemo, Feb, 12, 1891; buried 
in the Ljnd- n Cemetery. Widow, Mrs, Mary A. bioniker, now lives w.th 
her son, Owen Sloniker, Eskridgf^, Kan. 

Geo. W. Huftord, Co. E; 19 Ind Inft ; lived in Fairfax twp ; died March 15. 
1885; biiried at Mt, Zion Chapel. This was the first death in the Post, arid 
the G A R. attended in a body, ticking charge of the funeral. Will Huf- 
ford, a son, lives near Dragoon. 

L Ft. Hale, Co 1, 1 Minn. Inft.; di^d in Lyndon, burled at Melvern. The 
widow, Josie P. Hal^ and chi'dren live in Lyndon. Mr. Ha'e to'd me 
that he belonged to a Batt'y. of Mii n Inft. dttached for service in the 
.^tate against the Indians. 



111. 

Corrections. 

The numbers to the following names were disarranged in printing The 
mistakes occur at the top of page 104. 

Geo. Thomas should be 57 O. Y. I. instead of 7 O. Y. L 

B. Albaugh, " " 126 " " of 26 ' 

J. L.Clemence, " " 18 " " of 58 " 

Fred Super at foot of page 107, should be 100 Penn. instead of the 105 Penn. 

On the first page of this Roster (page 101.), in the list of Commanders of 
Lyndon Post No. 19, J. M. Wbinrey's name should have appeared as the first 
Commander of the Post. He served in 188\ Following this Roster is a His- 
tory of the Post which was rf ad at a Campfire Feb. 22, 1891. In this History, 
the first CiaiimMnder is spoken of. 

At the bottom of psge 101 is an error; Jan , 1887 should read Jan., 1897. 



THE WOMAM^S BELIEF GOBPS. 
1^0. 148, DPT. OF KANSAS. 
Lyndon, Kan. 

The Corps was organized Feb. 2, 1887, and Mrs Etta Howe in- 
stalled THE FIRST President. 
Ninety five women have been connected with the order in the 

TEN years of its EXISTENCE, FORTY-SIX OF WHICH ARE NOW CON- 
NECTED WITH THE Corps. Two have died, many removed, and some 

DROPPED OUT. 

Mrs. Margeret Arnold. Mrs. Amanda Downs. 

Mrs. Sophia Barnes. Mrs. Sarah E. Drew. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Buck. Mrs. Ella Doty. 

Mrs. Francis Beasley. Mrs. Nora M. Downer. 

Mi-s Lulu Barnps. Mis. Laura Dormao. 

Mrs. Mary Bodenhammer. Mrs. Susan Danhauer. 

Mrs Ellen Collins. Mss Mary A. Green. 

Mis. Ma^y Coiterman. Mrs. Martha Gieene. 

Mrs. Jcsie E. Cowan Mrs. Emma Green. 

Mrs Maggie F. Chittenden. Mrs Sarah E Gray. 

Miss AgQt s Childs. Mrs. Annie Green. 



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Miss Lennie Grine.— Deceased. 


Mrs. Kate A. Einghisen. 


Mrs. Nancy Fuller. 


Mrs. Emma Reed. 


Mrs Lucy M. Foster. 


Mrs. Vera Rogers. 


Mrs. Emma Frankhouser. 


Miss Birdie Rogers. 


Mrs Etta Howe. 


Mrs. Lorinda C. Rand. 


Mrs Mariha T. Holiingsworth. 


Mrs. Lurenda B. Smith. 


Mrs. Kate M.Holland. 


Mrs. Margeret L. Sowell. 


Mrs. Emma Heaton. 


Mrs. Eiiza J. Simmons. 


Mrs. Hattie Htaton. 


Mr?. Mary A. Sloniker. 


Mrs Emalira Hawkins. 


Miss Hattie B. Sweezey. 


Mrs Sarah A. Hoover.— Deceased. 


Mrs. Meljnda Sweezey. 


Mrs. Dicie Holiingsworth. 


Mrs. A. M. Sanderson. 


Mrs. ISarah E. Hussey. 


Mrs. Eliza Starkey. 


Mrs. Sarah C. Hunt. 


Miss Jane Sanderson. 


Mrs. Mary Hand. 


Mrs. Ada Smith. 


Mrs. Emma E. Holloway. 


Mrs. Parmelia L. Tyler. 


Mr5. Mary Hastings. 


Mrs. Cariie Trumbull. 


Mrs. Josie Hunting. 


Mrs. Margeret E. Taylor. 


Mrs. Angle Huffman. 


Mrs. Annie Tomberlin. 


Mrs Johanna M. Hanson. 


Mrs. Lucy Uber. 


Mrs. Lizzie A. Iveenan. 


Mrs. Clara Wilson. 


Mrs. Olive A. Leffler. 


Mrs. Maggie Williamson. 


Mi.-s Mary Leffler. 


Mrs. Mary I. Wiilett 


Mrs. J. W. Lord. 


Mrs. Annie Widney. 


Mrs. Sarah McMillen. 


Mrs. Millie Weber. 


Mrs. Alice Melick. 


Miss Viola Wynne. 


Mrs. Hettie E. Madaris, 


Mrs. Sarah W'atson. 


Mrs. Lucy Manrose. 


Mrs R. M. Wilson. 


Mrs. Miry M McMillen. 


Mrs.MattieF. W^hee'er. 


Mrs. Mollie Newell. 


Mrs. E. Woodall. 


Mrs. Anna Olcott. 


Mis. Carrie M. Whitman. 


Mrs. Louie W. Olcolt. 


Mrs. MinLie E. Whittemoie. 


Mrs. Ella Pleasant. 


Mrs. Miranda J. Wire. 


Mrs. Ka'e Pleasant. 


Mrs. N. J. Wire. 


Mrs. Lucy Potts. 


Mrs. Mary A. Wire. 


Mrs. Emma D. Tlausom. 


Mrs. Elanore Woodward. 



ii: 



Head Q larters Valley Brook Veteran 
Company, 

Lyndon, >'ept. 5, 1881. 
Sppcial Order Xo. 1. 
The members of this Co will meet at 
Lyndon Saturday, Sept. 10th at 2 P. M. 
for the purpose of drill and other busi- 
ness. Milt '\Viii>-key, 
Capt. Com'dg Co. 

The above notice I tiud in the Lyn 
don Leader (J. H. Stavely and H. II. 
Ptiihirdson editors) Sept. 8, 1881, a ad 
by further inspection of the sane num- 
ber learn that this Oil Veteran Co. 
was well organized and officered as will 
be seen by the following list of the offi 
cers and non-commissioned otiic«^rs, pre- 
p:ira'ory to its attending the state re- 
union at Topeka, Sept. 15, 1881. 

The Lyndon Veteran Company. 
Offi ers and Non commissioned Officers. 

Milton Whinrey Capt. 

W. W. Morris 1st Lieut. 

D F. Cjon 2od " 

F. A. Downs Orderly Sergt. 

S B. Tower Commissary " 

J.H.Howe 2nd Duty " 

J. H. Courtney 3rd " 

Geo. Weber 4th " 

John Hiuton 5th " " 

John H. So well 1st Corp. 

VVm. Hais 2nd " 

T.E.Dempster 3rd " 

F. Ringhisen 4th " 

Nels Hollings worth 5th " 

List of the company. 
A. W. Sargent. . .Herbert Goodman 

E. D. Atwell.. John Hooper 

J. M. Barnes J. T. Underwood 

Thomas Williams John Leffier 



J. W. Keenan Lew S irgent 

Joe Drew , 11. W. Jcnhess 

E. H. Chittenden ... .P. Dougherty 

John Wolf Monroe Pettigrew 

S. B. E adei ton R. H. Wynne. 

John C. Rankin J. A. Willey 

W. A. Cutterman. . .J. H. Kennedy 

S.imuel Ho'yoke A. 13. Wire 

L Kimball Gco Herald 

A. G. Morris Ge j. II ulford 

G. S. HaAkins G. W. Browning 

W. C. Sweezey Chas, Cochran 

J. ^y'. Morris E. Woodall 

N. D. FairbaLks B G. Wilson 

G^o. W. Riggs...S. L. McWhinney 

D II. Danhauer R, R. Glass 

The n g ments of the above S( Iditrs 
show in oiher places in this roster. 

G. L. Geoffrey, Corp. Co. D; 12 Kan. Inft 
Daniel Heron, pri. Co. B; 75 Ind. Inft. 
Anderson Hunt, " C >. K ; 122 O. V. I. 
H. H. McKane, Corp. 91 O. V. L 
James Ackley, pri. Co. K; 8 Kan. Inft* 
Jobn Burgess, " Co. C; 27 iVlich. " 
Wm. Wise, Sergt. Co. F; 47 Ind. 
P. F. Wellman, Surg. U. S. A. 
J. G. Marshall, pri. Co. B; 56 Pa. " 
J. Ct. Ellis, pri. Co. G; 74 III. Inft. 
G. W. Metzler, pri. Co. A; 120 O. V. L 
E A. Richards, pri. Co. D; 5 Kan. Cav. 
G H B'aT, pri. F; 1, O. Light Art'y. 
Robert Xeil, Sergt. Co. I; 5 W. Va. Inft. 
B. E. Tweed, Sergt. Co. B; 172 O. X. G. 
Levi Sbrader, pri. Co. B; 17 Kan. Inft. 
James Thompson, pri. Co. C; 1 la. Cav. 
A. J. Utley, Provost Marshall. 
Henry Howell, Sers:t. Co. C; 14 W. Va. I. 
Wm. King, pri. Co. D; Mo. Guard. 



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Noto. At a Canp Fire heUi April 
(), 18'Jl.in ih* Opera house toee'ebiate 
fie Sllv-r Annivers ry nf tl^e (Jra d 
Arm/ Ord^-. i h J following sketch 
WHS prepK-rel J-nd rrad at the requpst 
of the Post by C K. Green. Ilistoiiaii. 
-—«♦>— 

OllGANIZATION AND lllSTOKY 
OF 

Lyndon Tost, No. VJ, 
DvT. OF Kan., G. A. K. 

Steps to permaf eritly organize Lyn- 
c'oii Pos', No. 19, l)pr, of Ka' sas. v%ere 
taken ly Cotmades residebt her*-, tarly 
in tMe j» ar 1880. 

March 27. J. T Underv^ood, now re- 
sidi g at Forence, Ka-., I avii g re- 
( e vi d il e propt r b o'^s and autsiority, 
called a meeti' g and J. M. Whinny 
w.'S elec!^d the li'St Tost C( mma; der. 

The f llow.n^ is the list of tiie Char- 
t^r n embers. J. M. WLiare^s Jas. 
Ke-'.nHdy, Wm Ha is, J. T. Under- 
Av. o f. F. A. 1) .WDS -]<.hn Sowe)], Andy 
B. Wire, J. W. Hammond, II. H. Mur- 
rayand W. A. Coiterman. 

We are indebted t) Ooni;ad'^ Downs 
for a (omplet-^ r<cird of these first 
meet n^F, as lie was chosen by Com- 
rade Whiniey to serve as the fiist Ad- 
jut Mlt. 

'jh^p'ace (f meeti'jg ia th^ se day^ 
was the Averill Hall over 1) F. C( o I's 
Clothing Siore; they afterward met in 
a liall over IIc.racB Clark's Hardware 
St or ; in 188o, th-y weie able to < ccupy 
the preseat G. A. H. Hall ii Air. Howe's 
building. 

There seems to have b(-en a Mtch 
soinewheiv ia ihe gr .w.h of the ordtr 
ill the earlier \ears of its hisloiy in this 
pla.je: not until 1HH2, did the bojs seem 



tobecone thor* ujiMy inte'-eetpd. Not 
b in r a member th^n, I will asMibe all 
hindratic-is to a Kansas drougth. But 
II! 18Si as d 'H':^ we had a br.untif 1 bar 
ve^! ; TAventy nx joined in '82, and t ^en- 
ty-eevc^n i » '^3. Siuce that tiine the 
old iioys hHve from far and near con 
nee el thenibelYr^s with the Post, nn'il 
oil' b' oks show one hundedani e^gi.t- 
(ei na.nes wit i about ( ne half that 
number in active connec'i n with the 
Post at this time Justice sh *uld how- 
ever be granted to a large number ia 
our ni s% \\h^\ thouyh nob paying 
meoib rs, come ve y prompt y to our 
aid in the timfs <f wo.k, arid upon 
pat 11'.^ oreisions when it 1* desirabJe 
that -oil th^ B'jys in blue should fall ia 
I ne. 

There are about one-hundred old Sol- 
diers residmg in the township, but we 
ha*e H.embers in Olivet, M-lvern, 
xigency, Junc'ion and Fairfax town- 
ships, who eratl er with us ar> different 
times dur ng the year. 

VVlil-- we decotate twenty-s x old 
Soldiers' graves in onr Lailon and 
V'llley Brook Cemeteiies, this P. st, 
fetrii tly f peak in?, has never buried but 
ot'O of lis own meoibers, viz., Geo, 
Huffoul. We have, however, assisted 
in the buri i of a gjod many old Boys, 
and we are grateful to the Heavenly 
Fati^ifr who has spaied our lives and 
supplied our wants thus far on this 
marcli of lite; ani when we, too, h^ar 
t' ac (inal bugle ca 1 to cto s the Jor- 
dan, niriy the rising youth be ready to 
take up our mantles. 

Comr fides and Friends, jou have 
been fbmiliar during all thete eltveu 
ye.irs with tae woikings of our Post. 



Hi 



It has plajel no smaU part in public 
doings herr^. Wt3 have he'pecl >oii to 
ce ebrate oar National anniversaiies 
of Iiideptndence. We lnv^ Iwee 
pitched 0! r old J^oliieifc' l^eunion 
Camp beoide the villa e. We lave 
striven to r-are for ihe sc'^ and afflic ed 
among <uf eolier friends. Deiora- 
lion Day h. as neveriassel witliout a 
proper obs r^ance of ds spiii^, and 
how of en has lie day drav\n friends 
togeth r from ail over tie country to 
stev/ fl )weiS oVr the eraves of their 
depart^d \Ve, as a Pos , labored ia 
your midst to inaugurate tne move- 
ment whicn culrnit a ed in onr Auxil- 
iary, The Womnn's Relief Corps, now 
such a popular and useful order among 
our wives and da igh ers. We have all 
along during thes-i >eirs given yoa 
tree s, in Cwmp Fins aod G A. K. 
sociable?; an'i, ii would bn urneceEsary 
for me to fiircher euumeiate our work. 
Bur amid a 1 these years the fact must 
no. b<3 forg itten that a Post to be suc- 
cessful, must have dr voted, eneigeuc 
officers. The finances must be k-pt up, 
the proper b oks and reports made out 
and over and above a!l, the Com- 
mander must keep a vipilant eye. 
This ( rder has no salaried^ office. Fra- 
ternity, Charity, and Loyalty, is our 
motto, and no one labors in vain for 
t'iC p ssession of these virtues. 

Comma. der J. M. AVhinrey was fol- 
lowed by W. A. Cotterman as Com- 
mander. J. H. Howe was the next 
successor and he was cofitinued in 
office four successive years. Sol Bower 
serv«-d oae term and was succeeded by 
How^, who served one terra, goiug 
out of office lasti Jan. in favor of the 
pivseut incumbent. Comrade HoUings- 
worth. Such in brief are the essential 



feaUire^ of our Post History. How 
few nww da^fs re^diz '. that it is tv^euty- 
s X y a''S siufe the close of the war, 
and t^a". not i iitil sevcal }ea s afser, 
taat wjs thi city of Lyndon founded, 
and that only a few more y< ars, and 
this placi^wid kno vu^ no mo e. Pheu 
Comrades and Fri nd--, lend us a kind- 
ly hand as Vse en leaver to k-^ep up 
this order in our d eeiinirg ye^rs, 
W, A. Co terman. 

iVndy Cotterman wa? boru at Loam', 
Sangnmon Co, 111, D^c. 10, 1817. He 
enlistt^d M ly 2, 18ot, as private in Co. E 
133 111 , National Guard'. 1h^ P'^g'- 
WHS sent to Rock island whe-re they 
guarded Rebel prisoners the summ^^r 
of 1861. He was mustered out Sept. 21, 
1864. Rdniisted in th<^ 149 HI. Infr., 
but was thrown out for physical disa- 
bility. 

He came to Kansas June, 1870, set- 
tling w fl his fatli3r and sister at Lyn- 
don. Removed to Osa?e City Oct., 
1871. Here he tilled the offic^ of deputy 
p)st master ihree years— 1873 to 1876. 
H-i was elec el Clerk of the Dist. Court 

1878, which office he held 6 years. 
He married Mrs. Mary Payne Jhu 7, 

1879, and again settled down in Lyn- 
don. They have two children, Eugene 
and Judith Cotterman. Frcm the first, 
he has been one of the proprietois of 
the Cotterman- Wilson Grain and Eleva- 
tor Co. They commenced it Nov., 18S9 
and had it ready to receive grain by 
Feb. 4, 1890, Monroe Stivison unloading 
the first load of corn that day. 

W. A. Cotterman was the 2Dd Com- 
mander «)f Lyndon Post, 1882. Alwa\ s 
active in politics, alive to Lyndon's 
best interest, he needs no further no- 
tice from my pen to commend him to 
future historians. 



IIG 



Short s ketch ii:s of the Com 
:\iANDEKs of the Lyndon Post. 

sol bower, fourth commander of 

LYNDON rosT— 1888. 

Solomon Bower was born ia Summit 
county, Ohio, November 7, 18"J2. His 
father died there in 1841, and when Sol 
was twelve years old his mother, with 
her family of four children, removr d to 
Juliet, lli. In March, 1857, when 25 
years old, he went to Kansas and es- 
poused Freedom's cause. He once said 
in a letter to me, that as a youth he had 
very deep feelings on these matters. 
He had been taught the evils of slavery 
and could not stand idly by and see 
Kansas made a slave state and not take 
a hand in the fight. So early in the 
season of 1857 he came to Lawrence, 
and made that his home. 

Early in the year of 1861 he went to 
Iowa to visit a brother. While there 
Fort Snmpter was fired on and he en- 
listed, June, 1861, in Co. H., 2nd Iowa 
Cav. He did service in this until May, 
1863, when he receiv d an honorable 
discharge for physical disability, and 
returned to Lawrence, Kansas, where 
he was living with his mother when, on 
August 21, 181^3, od Quantrell and his 
gang of murderers made their raid on 
Lawrence, shooting down in cold blood 
about 'iOO persons, of which 113 died 
and 30 were desperately wounded. Sev- 
enty-iive stores, hotels and business 
houses were burned, and near.y one 
hundred dwellings. Two million do- 
lars' worth of property was destroyed 
in the four hours that they h id posses- 
sion of Lawrence; 80 widows ani 2j0 
or[)hans were left beh nd. 

"We lived jmt outs'de of the c ty 
corporation near v\ here the guerrillas 
entered the city. Our house was the 



first one attacked. Snider, living in the 
same house v\ith us, was the (irst man 
k lied in the raid, and I was their sec- 
ond mnrk, i ut nine shots at short range 
proved me to be bullet-proof, so they 
let me oti". latfrinihe raid a brother 
was killed in the ( ity. They came early 
in the morning, three or four hun ired 
strong, and Lavvrence had no soldiers 
to guard it, nor any warn ng of the pro- 
posed raid, and had it not been for their 
great haste to get on into the city before 
the people were arous d we would have 
suffered more. 

"I was married in La vrence Nov. 5, 
I860 to Miss Juli I A. Thornton. She 
came from Athens count>', Ohio to ca e 
for a brother who h d leceived five 
wounds ia the Quant ell laid at Law- 
rence. 

''Jn these early years after the war 
La vM'eoce WMS quite a place for the 
heaiquaites of various Indian agents, 
traders,ec., who were conn cted wit 1 
the tribes living in Fianklin and Osage 
count es. Anticipating the treaty wit i 
the Sac and Fox Indians and final oc- 
cupation of these lands, some promi- 
nent m »nied men of Lawrenc -■ s leeted 
me as an advance guard, to go down to 
the Sac and Fox agency in the spring 
of 1867, to look out for t eir interests. 
Their design WrS, upon the latific t on 
of the the treaty by Congress, throwing 
open the Inlian reserve for se tlement, 
to have a town site secured in the sec- 
tion abound where Lyndon was some 
yea s later lorated, that could be made 
a railroad metropol s and co inty sea\ 
We spcuied p 'imi. sionf omthlndi n 
agent to locate at the Agency, and open- 
ed out a bote', but this did not t-uit us, 
and at't r waiting lwo years for the d:- 
minished reserve to be thiown open 
lawfully, in the fall of 1869 I went up 
b-yoiid Olivet on the "Trust Lands" 
and bought a quarter sec i n of land of 



ir 



a mm by the ^ame of Hammon; we, 
however, received our defd from Bob 
Stephens. I went rigLt to work build- 
ing me a house, and b foie the spring 
eiec'ti JQ t.f 1870 we wee once more liv- 
ing in a home of our own, 

•'I was so bu^y ihen that I pa-d li tie 
or n.) .ttention to e ection or township 
matters. Arvooia then embraced ail 
the southwest quaiter of Osage county, 
12 by 15 m les, and there Avere no im- 
provements then from the Agency to 
Olivet, which was a mile ea^t of my 
place and only a few families there. 
West of me, I remember n me until we 
got to Jim Jess e'ij. For fcome lime we 
did o ir principal trading at Lawrence, 
later, in Osage City. At first it was 
very 1 ;n som^ to us, but neigabors 
g-adaall} came in and we enjoyed farm 
life. 

"Bi'f re going on to speak of town- 
ship atfairs I wish to go back a year or 
two and ^ive a 1 ttle history of the ad- 
veiit of se' tl r on the Indian Reserve: 
Whil.i living at the Ag-^ncy watching 
the movements of t e Indians .aid Con- 
grrss, I found plen'y of o hers equally 
as vig 1 ,nt. th tiigh not as well p sted. 
Albert Wiley had b en confirmed In 
dian ;.gent in M irch, 1887, a^jd by Octo- 
ber, 186S c rtai i parties hai neg -tiated 
a trea-y with the Sac and Yox Indians, 
thit, when coijfirmed by Congress, 
Would extinguish t'^eir clciicn to the Di- 
mi ished Reserve and throvv open many 
ttioasiud acres of the finest lands in 
Kansas for stttlem^nt by anyone who, 
being ficbt occup .nt of the cl iim, should 
pay the price of one do lar and fifty 
cents per acre. Before the treaty was 
made fiere were many persons all over 
the R serve selecting c'aims, thinking 
they could hold them after the treaty 
was ratified. But the Indians laid in a 
compla nt and the Government sent 
s.ldi.rs to clear the Reserve of all 



whites except those whohai permission 
from the Agent to stay. As soon as 
the ^reaty was made, and be ''ore it was 
ratified, the Reserve was filled aga^n 
with claim hunters, and again the U. S. 
troops were called on to drive them off. 
Many of the home seekers camped on 
lands adjactnt to the Reserve and or- 
ganized to protect and stand by each 
other. And thus through a long siege 
of dread, worry and fear, anally gained 
possession of their claims. 

"WithtbiT»leDg hy digression I will 
now return to my new home. As I 
said before, I was very busy with my 
affairs around home in Apri', 1870 when 
one day an oldish s jrt of a man lode 
up and inquired if I was Mr. Bowers; 
introducing himself as John Perrill. 
lie sa d that he lived nine miles west 
of my place, and at the recent township 
election had been elected road overseer 
in his road district, and as he had an 
impor:ant road matter to look after at 
ODcc he des red me to duly qualify him 
into his oflice I was very much aston- 
ished at the latter pait of his conver- 
sation, and told him that I was no pub. 
lie officer to swear f o ks into oftice, and 
that he had come to the wron? place. 
He replied that I had been legally elect- 
ed trustee of Arvonia township, and 
w anted to know if I hadnt had my le- 
gal notice of said elecaon. I told him 
his not ce was the first information I 
had had of it. 'Well," said he, "it is 
correct, and as I live so far away and 
cannot come again, and the exigencies 
of the situation demand my being in- 
stal ed into my oftice at once, I will ask 
you to fill out and sign my papers and 
save me another trip.' 1 stood out 
about doing such act until I had au- 
thority, but he begged so piteously that 
at last I yielded, made ouc his papprs, 
administered the oa'h and started him 
away a full fledged oflicial. 



lis 



"1 did not care to have this knowa 
very much in those days, but John 
Marsden. the trustee of Mel vera t »wn 
sh'p, and I used to ialk over ourofticial 
cares occasionally together, and we al- 
ways had a bi^' laugh over this. 

"I wrfs elected trustee again ia Arvo- 
nia in 1871. iSeptemier 4th tue coun'y 
coaomissionerj created Olivet town-hip 
out of Ar^^oniaaud Age'icy, and I re- 
sign' d ray oftice in Arvoaia only to be 
appointed trustee in my new township 
of Olivet, and wcs elected ]n succeed- 
ing ye^rs to the same ottlce. 

•'In 1870 1 ran against E. H. Marcy 
in the Cl&t District a> R-publlcan nom- 
inee for llepresei.taive to the ^'!^tate 
Legislature, and at t'le electi ^n Novem- 
ber 7ch received 1,001 votes to his 358. 
Agaii two J ears la'er, I ran tor the 
same otli e against II. Kirby, Green- 
backer, and James M. W» od,Piohibi- 
tionist, beating Kirby by 33 vote. D. 
II. Danhauer was my c. lleajue from 
the 60Lh District in this county both 
terms. I lived in Olivet until 1885. I 
served as trusee 7 terms, township 
treasurer two terms, school district 
treasurer 9 terms and member of the 
Legislature two terms. I wound up 
my pub ic life by seiving two years as 
mayor of the city of Lyndon. 

"After a few years on our O.ivet farm 
where stock and f irming paid reasona- 
bly well, I had to quit it on account of 
physic il infirmities. We had a pleas- 
ant neighborhood and enjoyable time 
there. As I said b f re, we moved to 
Lyndon in 1885. Du ing our long resi- 
dence in Kansas we can credit much 
the larg^-st share on the suuny side of 
life. This has already grown too 
lengthy, so I will stop. 

{Sol Dowku. 



D. H. DANHAUER. 

David H. Danhauer was born in Mus- 
kingum coun'y, Ohio, January 7, 1837. 
At the age of ten years he was left an 
orphan in the world, the youngest of 
eight children. He had a good com- 
mon school fduca^ion and learned the 
trade of a shoemaker. 

March 2, 1854 he married Susan F. 
Grovts of Taylorsville, Muskingi.m 
county, Ohio, They settled in Deavers- 
to ^n, but after four years removed to 
Duncan Falls, Ohio, which was their 
home until they removed to Kansas. 

Three children were born to them I e- 
forrf the war— Henry G., Willie S., who 
died agei three, and Louis H. The 
la-jt only a month old baby when Mr. 
Dauhauer went off to the war. 

He enlisted as a private in Ca;»tain 
Peachb's company— Co. A, l22 Ohio 
Volunteer Intautry, August 19, 1862. 
Capt. Peach raised this company in and 
around Mr. Danhauer's town, and al- 
though Mr. D. was only twenty -five 
years old, he was considered to be one 
of the older ones and was at once elect- 
ed to the place of first sergeant. 

Early in bis war service, at Prukers 
burg, Va., he was afflicted vvitii ih« 
sickness that was with him all his al- 
ter life, and finally resulted in his 
death. Bat he did not le.ive the regi- 
ment. In fact h^ never wis a'oieao 
from it during the war, s > far as Mrs 
Danhauer knows, exce[)t when him^^ 
on furlough uhmt the clos^— Feb., 1865. 

March 4, 1864 he wa"^ prc-moted to 
First Lieutt-nant, and made Adjutant 
of the regiment. He was in Gen. M 1 
roy's Division, 6th Corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

lie was in battles and campaigns hs 
follows: 1862, AVinche&ter, Va.; 1863, 
Nov. 8, Brandy Station, Va ; 1864, all 
through that terrible Wilderness figlit, 



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where. May 5, 6 and 7, and at Spottsyl 
vania 8th to the 14th Grant lost 64,178 
killed, wounded and missing; Cold 
Harbor, Jane 1st to 15:h; Bermudi, 
Huiidr d; tinaliy getting on to the left 
at Petersburg, June 22, "64. 

July 4, 18^54 their division was trans- 
ferred to the Army of the Shenandoah 
under Geni. P. IJ. Sherida'^, where Mr. 
Danhauf^r's regiment had a hand in the 
biitle of Opequan, 8ept 19, 1864, Fish- 
ers Hill, Mount Jackson, New Ma: lief, 
<ind lasi the sudden surprise made on 
the union army by Gen. Early at Cedar 
Cf-'ek, Ocober 19th; their sudden re- 
treat and Sheridan's 'twenty mile ride' 
fo s;ive the day, all eudiLg in glorious 
victory. 

Tdt^n there was a little affair at 
Kernstown, Nov. 12th, which ended 
their service in the Shenandoah valley. 
In Ft^bruary, 1865 their division was 
se.'t back t; Grant's army in front of 
P.t-Tbburg. Maich 25ih they broke 
lines .md rested no more until two 
weeks lat^r when old Lee surrendered 
It Appomattox, April 9Lh. General 
Wrigh commanded the 6. h corps then. 
Immr-dijitely after Lee's surrender 
Co ;;rade Danhauer's corps v/as order- 
ed southward to assist Sherman's army 
in capturing Genl. Joe Jonnson'd rebel 
army in the Carolinas. Bat before 
they got there he surrendered and went 
home with the rest. 

May 23rd an(i 24ih the armies under 
Genls. Grant and Sherman passed in 
Grand R'iview previous to discharge. 

They were mustered out there June 
26, 1865, and soon nfrer discharged and 
paid oil at Columbus, Ohio. 

When he returned home from the 
war he went into the dry goods busi- 
ness there at Duncan Falls, but not 
liking it, in a year or two he went back 
into Lis old boot and shoe trade, sell- 



ing eastern stock and making liomc- 
made goods for all who des red. 

In the fall of 1870, having sold out 
their home with a purpose of buying 
one with more land attached, so that 
iheir b)ys cjuld follow farming, Mr. 
Danhaut r, after receiving some Kai- 
sas papers from a Mr. Miilner here at 
L5ndon,was led to come west and 
kok around. He liked it so well here 
that he bought a farm 3 miles north of 
Lyndon that ihey still own, and that 
Henry Danhauer lives on, and also 
bought several town lots in Lyndon. 
He went back to Ohio and stayed there 
that winter. In the spring Atweiis, 
D'eavers and themselves came on, arriv- 
ing at Lyndon itarch 30, 1871, settlii^g 
on their farm at once. Their family 
then consibtcd of hve — the tv/o boys 
above spoken o^", born before the war, 
and Annie D , who was about two and 
a half years old when they moved here, 
and the parents. Nora D. was born 
after they had settled here, three and a 
half years. 

They lived on their farm nine years. 
In common with oihers they stayed 
right here through ail the grasshopper 
drouthy years and knew what priva- 
tions a settler has to endure in a new 
country. Mr. D. worked at his shoe- 
mcikers' benoh on the farm and one 
year, after Mr. Hancock, a shoemaker 
in Lyndon died, he bought out his 
stock, occupied his old shop and work- 
ed here a year, going ba.;k and forth 
from the farm. 

Mr. Danhauer was elected to the 
Legislature two terms — Nov. 7, 1876, 
for two years from January, 1877, and 
another two years' term in 1879. 

They moved in*o Lyndon October, 
1881. Henry had been married to one 
of Elijah Woodall's daughters a ye^^r 
or so and he went onto the farm. Mr. 



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D mhaiier m )V3d iat) the Dr. FenQ 
residence, where they lived six years 
M<\ D. bought itito the grocery store ia 
the biijk front bui'ding with Fii.dley 
lU)bia-OB. He became owner of the 
biiikli g af erward, se'iing out his 
stock t ) (Jutwillig; and the tu'lding in 
time pa sed into i larence Martin's and 
Ilorce Clark's hail d-^. Mr Danhauer 
a' so followed merchandising in Find- 
ley liobin o t's new stone bi ilding on 
the opposite side of the st eet, wh ch 
they sold out to Oneal Tros. 

AVh n Mr Danhauer sold out his 
brick f ont store to Claren e AJartin he 
moved back on to his farm, where Le 
stayed until Fel rum y, 1889, or about 
two years. Then from increasing m- 
tiimit'es he feit that he must give up 
farming, so the f -rm was rented out 
and he returned to Lyndon. This t me 
they lived in the Wh nrey house, which 
Mr. E. H. Yail now owns aud occu- 
pies, one year, and hen I ought out Mr. 
S mmons' residencr' in blocK 40, where 
th-y have fin e resided. 

It w as IS'JO, the second year in town, 
that he ee.ved as Commandtr, csnd per- 
formed such other duties as his fello.v 
citizens laid npon 1 im. It v\as tht ir 
intentions, as s o i as out cf debt to 
once m re go bacli and visit their old 
Ohioh>n:ie. Mr Danhauer said to h s 
wi-e tl at the m rtgages were paid last 
year and th s year (18JT) was to have 
been the ye-ir f -r ih. ir conemplated 
trip, but iLe Lord w lU d otherwise. 

Ma-ch 14, ISDiJ Mr. Danhauer died 
} nd the widow doei not care to ^o back 
noAV 

Hi-nty Dan' auer married Ida F. 
Woo jbli iL itHO and has live children. 
The> live on the farm. 

Lew Danhauer, with his boy [I. Wal- 
lace Daidiaunr, liv<^s in l^an Francisvo, 
C liforiiia. 

Aunie Da h uer m^riied WilLur 



Greer.etf Lyndon and lives with the 
mother. Uer husband f llowiug me.- 
cautile bu-ine s or such o^her employ- 
mtnt as thee stringent times gives 
one. They have two hi tie girls. 

Xora E Danhai.er m rried Harper 
C. Murphy t f oedalia, Mietouri in 1896, 
and b th lollow ttacbingin the com- 
meici 1 college there at bedalia. 

DECORATION DAY AT LYNDON— 1884, 

This was a red letter d^y for the old 
soldiers {around Lytidon, This is not 
to be a review of the day; full accounts 
c n be read in the Lyndon papers of 
that d^.tp. The Fost tuined out in full 
force, well uniformid. The procession, 
from the city to the cemetery v^as 
about a mile ]o?g of teams. After 
the decoration services were over, Hai- 
ry Ford took lour pictures, that i.t this 
late day have a histtric interes'. 

1st. A picture of tie Flow r Girls, 
Bai d, old soldiers and others out in the 
cemetery. And second a picture of the 
Flower Girlb in their convey ance. 



NAMES OF THE 

Lucy Williams, 
Carrie Hedges, 
Elva Buck, 
Anna Kennedy, 
Alice Hawkins, 
Etiie Courtney, 
Maiy Williamson, 
Mamie Ayer.^, 
Ltcy Underwood, 
Addle Drev/, 
Mamie Keenan, 
Lilie Leller, 
Ne.lie Fleming, 
Emma lleaton, 
Celia Black, 
Luna Gardner, 
M-y Trumbull, 
Flo Mhdaris, 



FLOWER GIRLS. 

Cura Woodall, 
Winnie Green, 
Emma l^ ennedy, 
IdaMcWhinney, 
Emma Hintor, 
Myrtle Wolf, 
Mcty West, 
Vesta (Jeyer, 
Nora Danhauer, 
Edith Hollingsw'th 
Lulu Dt.ra(s, 
Grace Cottrel', 
Ada Glass, 
Lula IVair.^, 
Dollie Whiitemoie, 
Ettie (jJaidiier, 
Cora Fleming, 
Fkra Sknaker. 



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Sketches of the lives of J. M 
Whinrey and John H. Howe, first 
and third commanders of lyndon 
Post. 

J. Milton Whinrey was the first 
Commander of the Post. 

He was born in Clinton Co., Ohio 
July 23, 1840. Lived in Cass Co , Mich., 
and Joliet, III.; here he enlisted April, 
21, 1861 in the 3 months service, after 
the firing on Fort Sumpter. They did 
not leave the state. June 21, 1861, they 
were mustered into the U. 8. service. 
He went as a private iri Co. F, 20, 111. 
Inft. In 1864 he veteraned with the 
Kegt , and while home then on a fur- 
lough in Ohio, he married Miss Emily 
LieuraDce, April 14, 1864. He was in 
36 battles commenceing with Forts 
Henry and Donelson, and Shiloh. He 
was in the 1 7th Corps, Army of Tenn- 
esee. He saw over four years service 
and came out Capt. of his Company. 

After the war, in the fall of 1873, he 
moved into Osage Co., Kansas, buyiog 
the 80 from the same quarter in which 
Rev. Green of Junction twp., lives. 
He only farmed there one year, after 
which he returned to Ohio, and stayed 
two years. 

In the spring of 1876, he moved back 
sold his 80 for stock and lived on rented 
farms until the year of 1882, when he 
bought the Capper farm one mile east 
of Lyndon, paying $2,800 for it. Two 
years later, being elected to the oftice of 
County Sheriff, he sold his farm to H 
C. Cates for $5,500, and moved into 
town. 

In these years of 1876 and '82, Milt 
AVbinrey was known all over the coun- 
try as a very successful Auctioneer at 
public sales. 

The next several years were very disas- 
trous ones to him. As he had used con- 
siderable of his means in building him- 



self a home, and also expended some- 
what for his re-election, he was hardly 
prepared for the defeat he received in 
not being re-elected. The death of his 
wife, and depreciation of Lyndon pro- 
perty broke him up, and he went out to 
Ke jrney Co., Kansas and homesteader. 
Some time afterward he married Miss 
Livonia Pryer of Lyndon, who had a 
claim near him. His childrens' names 
are— Norah E, Whinrey, married to 
Engene Bailey of Lyndon; Estelle I. 
W— ., who died at the age of 11 at Lyn- 
don; Olive P. W— ., who is about 18; 
she, together with the youngest child, 
Myrtle Ethel W— ., born 1882 on the 
Capper farm, live ai their home in Pas- 
saic, Kearney Co., Kan. 

Comrade Whinrey and wife visited 
the Osage Co. friends the fall of '96 
and they were made to feel that this 
is yet a good sectioa of country to live 
in; and when fortune permits, we will 
welcome them back to Lyndon. 



DECORATION DAY— 1884. 

Floral Committee. 
Mrs. Etta Howe, Mrs. J. H. Keenan, 
Mrs John Hinton, Mrs. P. Lefler, 
Misses, Misses, 

Flora Keenan, Cora Shoemaker, 

Ella Lefler, Gusta Kercher, 

Dora Waddell, Belle Uber, 
Clara Beaver, Ida Smell, 

Ella Carey, Anna Brown, 

Mary Green, Maggie Kennedy, 

Grace Morris. 
•'Bring all the flowers you can and 
deliver at the office of Dr. Chittenden 



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J. H. HOWE, 

Coaimaader 1883 87. 

John Hale Howe vviis born in Berlin 
M iss., May 18. 1838. He removed to 
Marlboroagh at the age of 18 and 
worked at the shoemaker's trade until 
Le ealisUd aid went to the war. 

jLine?U, 18(U, he enlisted in Co. F 13, 
Mass. In one month their llegt. was 
on its waj' to the Potomac. Their hrdt 
S' rvice was in the Upper Potomac 
aimy around Harper's Ferry, Sharps 
buTK', Darnstown, and Williamsburg. 

Hi was on provost guard duty seven 
weeks at Hagerstown, Md. Bic. '61 and 
Jan. "()2. Mirch 1, 1862 they crossed 
fie Potomac into Mirtinsburg. Ya. 
I'hey formed part of Gea. Banks and 
(ren. Shields army to occupy Winches- 
ter and B inker H. 11, Va. Sjme skir- 
mi.shing was had with the rebels under 
Jackson: afcer this movement, in 
March, 1862 they werr ordered dov\'n to 
j ia Gen. McDowel at Centerville. 

One of the singular freaks of war is 
that they broke camp and left it three 
d fferen^. days and each night found 
I seaa back in the same vicinity s© 
that they camped on the same ground 
thiee nights in succession. 

They moved to Bull Run, to 
Maiiasses Junction, and the 12th of 
May 1862, to Falmouth, und-r'r Gen. 
riartswoith. The marching and coun 
t:;i-rD arching was so fatiguing that 
Comrade Howe got detailed to drive a 
team, but as the army fell back on 
Washington he gave out entirely and 
v^ent to a hospital in Washington. 
July 4th he jo'ned his llegt. at Warren- 
ton Centre; C. H., but being unsble 
lor duty, was given an honorable dis- 
charge July 18, 1862 and sent home 
to Mass. 

Here, May 3, 18f)3 he married Miss 
Etta Dole at Berlin, Mass.; but 



July, 1864, feeling his count) y's call for 
mc-re help, he enl sted in Co, I 5th 
Mass He served one-hundred end six 
ttendaysasa guard at Baltimore; re- 
ceiving an honorable discharge Nov. 
16, 1864, he again returned home; this 
t me lor good 

J. H. Howe and v\ife rame to Osage 
Co., May, 1868 Sam Holyokes were 
fel;o<;v townsmen of theirs in Mass. 
and th?^y stopped here with them until 
the fall of 1868, when they were able to 
occupy, peaceably, a claim on the Salt 
Creek bottoms, one half mile south of 
where Lyndon was established in 1869 

In Mrs. Etta Howe's narrative, which 
is given ia another place, some of the 
early day trials of these pioneers is 
given along with others. 

From the first organiziticn of the G. 
A. E. in Kansas, he was interested; 
and, although abse:t in Mass with hia 
wife, for a peiod of five years during the 
'70"s, he retained his farm. Wlien he 
returned, he engaged in the sale of 
agaicultural tools; haulitig them down 
to his farm from Burlingame, where 
the settlers came and dealt liberally 
with him. 

On the organization of tbe Lyndon 
Post No. 19, in 1880, we find him on 
hand; and in 1883 he was elected Post 
Commander. December 1881 he re- 
moved from his farm to town, where he 
opened an agricultural tool store, buy- 
ing for that purpose the oldH. Gilbert 
property in block 27. This made h'm a 
good residence anb store combined. 

Mrs. Etta Howe p^rcona ly assisted 
him in his business and became ac- 
quainted with his customer.^?. They 
were both very eathusi.istic in the 
Grand Army work, and, during the six 
years from 1882, helped to increase the 
Post from thirty six to over one hun- 
dred members, and in 1887 Mrs. Howe 
and other Lyndon ladies instituted the 



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Woman's Relief Corps. Mr. Ilowb's 
business hnving iccnased, in 1884 he 
bought a large building (Deaver's car- 
riage shop) aud moved it onto his prem- 
ises. It was in the second story of this 
building that he finished off the nice 
large hal', which the Grand Army and 
Woman's Relief C.rps occupied so 
many years. 

Space will not admit of further men- 
tion of his care and devotion to the old 
so'dlers interest in Lyndon "The old 
boys" will always carry his love for 
them, in pbasant remenbrance. In his 
dying hours he sent his last message 
to them. 

August 31. 1882, when they were 
building the new Melhodist church, 
there whs a mass meating in its yard 
of old s Idi^rs and citizens of Osage 
County to lis'fn to a speech from Sena- 
tor Prest -n 'B. Plumb. This was ad- 
.iress d par iLiiUily to the o"d so'diers; 
arid, at the close of the day there 
was a r-organizition and re election 
(.f he "'fficers of the Osage County 
B itvtlioi. 

This was an organization composed 
largely of the Grand Army Posts of 
Osage County: and, probably not a 
half dozen other counties in the state 
were as well organiz-d as tbis county. 
Comrade J. H. Burke was elect^-d Col- 
onel of our BattU on on this occasion. 
I do not remember who was elected 
Colonel in 1883, but Comrade Howe 
was elected Lieut. Colonel, and in 1884 
he was elected Colonel; likewise in '85 
and '88. One of these years D. H. Dan- 
hauer was his Adjutant. 

In the fall of l!584, a very successful 
reunion was held in the eastern part of 
the city of Lyndon. Some three or 
four hundred old soldiers being present 
and plenty of tents set up to make a 
large camp. Commander Howe and 
Lyndon Post had plenty of work to do. 



They afterwards had th9 satisfaction 
of knowing that it was a social success 

Comrade Howe's large acquaintance 
with the old soldiers and others in the 
county, was, I think, the means of 
some of them abusing his confidence 
in succeed ng years, to the extent of 
many hundred dollars. Beeause of so 
many not paying lor their tools, bug- 
gies, etc., Comrade Howe was obliged 
to make an assignment. 

He held city offices and filled places 
of trust, and when from long continued 
ill health, he went East to live and die, 
one of the largest orders in Lyndon, 
The Modern Woodman of America, 
April 1893, passed resolutions of regret, 
and' expreessd many hearty wishes as 
to his future health, hapbiness, and 
prosperity. Many kind letters passed 
back and f jrth from the Post and Corps 
here, to Mr. aud Mrs. Howe in their 
home at Marlboro, Mass., prior to 
Mr. Howd's death, which took place 
June 24. 1894. As our Lyndon papers 
contained full account of his pa-sing 
away at the time of it, the task of the 
historian will close with a prayer 
that the widow may find as warm 
friends in the East as they left behind 
them here in the West. 






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(^EOKGi: WEBEK. 

Comrade George Weber, the seventh 
CommaLder of Lyndon Post No. 19, 
was born near Harmony, Buler coun- 
ty, Pe-jnsylvanid, January 7, 1839. 

Ihswas always his home until he 
removed to Kansas in 1867. 

WAR HISTORY. 

(Given in his language.) 
"I enl sted April 23, 1861, in Co. D. 
11 Pa. Reserves. We did not leave the 
siaie at once. Gov. Curtin iraised 13 
regiments of Inft, 1 of Cav., and one 
of Art., Cdl'ed the Pennsylvania Re- 
serves, numbering 15,000 men. The 
first battle of Bull Run occurred July 
21, 1861 and our Pa. Reserves were or- 
de.ed at once to Washington to rein- 
force Gen. McDowell's defeated army. 
W'e Were the first organized forces to 
leach Washington after the batt e. 
lieie, July 23rd, we were sworn iiilo 
the United States service for three 
J ears. We remained around Washing- 
ton until March, 1862. We were then 
in the second division under Gen. Geo. 
McCall; afterwards it was Gen. Geo. C. 
Meade's division. I was always under 
Meade. We first smelled powder Dec. 
20, 1861, at the engagement at Dranes- 
ville, Ya., where most of our Pa. Re- 
s rves took a hand and gained a victo- 
ry at slight loss to ourselves. 

We were very healthy and well this 
winter; we only lost one man out of a 
(oiipanyof 101 men. As our Pa. Re- 
serves hdd gone out together, we kept 
together and fought together the whole 
war. 

About June, 1862, being now in the 
3rd D.v. of the 1st Corps, we went with 
McC.eilan's army on the Peninsular 
campaign in front of Richmond. The 
light ng commenced May 31st at Fair 
O.ks, but we did not get into any se- 
vere engagement until June 26lh, when 
our divicion tojk the post of honor on 



the extreme right within four miles of 
Richmond, where from behind breast- 
works we repulsed the Rebel Gen. Hill 
and Longstreet's divisions with terri- 
ble loss to them. This was called the 
battle of Mechanicsville. On the morn- 
ing of the 27th our corps formed a line 
on Gaines Hill to oppose the the three 
rebel divisions of Hill, Longstreet and 
Jackson. In this, the second of the 
seven days' battle before Richmond, 
McClellan had 20,000 to the enemy 
70,000 men, and he got badly defeated, 
all the wounded falling into the enemy's 
hands. I was shot in the left arm and 
right side and left to the care of the 
enemy. Our regiment suffered the 
worst it ever had; we had eleven men 
killed out of our company alone. I 
was carried a prisoner of war to Rich- 
mond next day, and conBne4 in Libby 
prison and also about four weeks on 
Belle Isle, without any surgical care 
more than what fellow prisoners gave 
me; so that after about 40 days when I 
was exchanged, August 6 or 7, 1862, 1 
was able for duty and immediately 
joined my command in McDowel.'s 
corps at Harrison's Landing. We were 
soon after transferred to Gen Pope's 
army out on the Rappahannock, acting 
as a rear guard to his army from Cedar 
Mt , August 16th, and were the first 
troops to be engaged at the second bat- 
tle of Bull RuQ, August 28, 29 and 30th. 
In this engagement our division was 
a'most annihilated. The month of 
March before, our regiment had 1,040 
olhcers and men, and ovr company a 
full hundred. When we retired from 
this fatal field the regiment could only 
muster 43 officers and men; my com- 
pany only had myself and two others. 
On September 1st occurred the battle 
of Chantilla, Va., where we lost two 
generals— Genls. Kearney and Stephens 
and 1,300 killed and wounded, but did 



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not. get into the engagement very much 
ourselves. Lieutei.ant Jas. Kennedy, 
who ILvcS here in Lyndon, belonged to 
oar company' and had been in the rear 
sick with wounds, now rejoined the reg- 
iment and took charge of Co. D, and 
we had nine men for service. Septem- 
ber 14th occurred the battle of South 
Mountain, w'h'ere Lee was repulsed. 
We had a hand in this engagement. 
September 17, '1862 was fought the 
bloody battle of Antietahi, Md. This 
was the end of Lee's raid on Washing- 
ton. Our regiment which had 125 men, 
was on the extreme right and after this 
aifair Co D consisted of live privates 
and no officers. But the Captain, who 
had been wounded, came up bringing 
9 convalescents with him, and promot 
td me to the office of 3r... CorpcrcU. 
• The next battle of importance was 
fought on Fredericksburg Heights,' Ya. 
Dec. 13th, under Geul. Burnside, who 
crossed the Rappahannock on pontoon 
bridges with an army of 90,000 and 
chrtrged the Heights, meeting with a 
terrible repulse and loss of 12,000 or 
more men killed, wounded and missing. 
Here, while Qghting over the second 
line of works, I was struck by a bullet 
in my left side, which disabled me for 
any further service for six months. 
Oiir brigade made a -forlora hope'* 
charge, 2,200 men going in and only 310 
coming out alive and whole. Our com- 
pany had 32 men, but four only were 
left unhurt. 

I got back to my ommmd the next 
summer in time to have a hand in ti.e 
Gettysburg campaign. Our regiment 
had recruited up to 250 men, and the 
company had about 26 men. I was 
made a second sergeant. The union 
army laid at Fredericksburg until the 
rebels under Genl. Lee had marched 
around into the Shenandoah valley and 
thence acrjss the Potomac -into Penn- 



sylvania; but we moved very rapidly 
when we found cut their plans. Our 
force was 32 miles away v^hea the first 
dij's battle of Gettysburg came off, 
but we got in in time to have a hand 
the next morning. Our duty was to 
hold Little Round Top, which we did 
faithfully through the battle. We only 
lost a 2nd Lieut, here, who was shot. 
Lee was driven ba^-k across the P»)to- 
mac and soon turned up on the Rapi- 
dann again, which was about 60 miles 
from Richmond towards Washington. 
It was a great battle ground in Vir- 
ginia during the whole war. 

I was in engagements with my com- 
mand ttat fall as follows: Bristoe 
Station, OC 14lh; Rappahannock Sta- 
tion, Xov. 7th; Mine Run. Xov. 26th, 
and Xew Hope Church, 28th. That 
ended our fighting until Genl. Grant 
started out on his Wilderness cam- 
paign That winter of 1863-64 we 
were guards on the railroad at Bristoe 
station. 

May 5, 1864. Gen. Grant commencpd 
his (ontest with Gen. Lee in the battle 
of the Wilderness. This was a country 
of deiise thickets, and in three days' 
time the u;iion losses were 5,000 or 
more killed, 21.000 or more wounded, 
and over 10,000 missing. We were 
now in the 3rd division, Gen. S. W. 
Crawford; 5th corpp, Gi n. Warren; Po- 
tomac Army, Gen. Meade. My teim 
of service was about out, but 1 went 
into the first day's battle and was cap- 
tured and carried a prisoner of war to 
Andirsunviile. I was in that horribe 
death hole from Mny 23rd o September 
12, 1864, when. Sherman's operations in 
Georgia necessilated our removal to 
safer quarters. We were trausporied 
then to Florence, S C. Here, in addi- 
tion to starvatim we had to suffer ter- 
ribly irom the want of any fire or pro- 
tectiOu.incold v»eather. 



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December 17, 1861 I was paroled. 
When I arrived at Camp P.troJe, An- 
napolis, Md., I was so gaunt and poor 
that I was accused by the surgeon in 
cha' ge of desertiow. This startled me 
very much until he expiainfd that I. 
was -a deserter from some gravryard.' 
My health was ruined by the terrible 
prison experiences. I do not like to 
revert t J those d-iys, and will pass by 
wiih the rem^srk that about all 1 have 
to show of anything that 1 had in the 
war is a wooden spoon whittled out lor 
use there in Andersonville prison. 

After I had got well enough and 
able to travel, I was discharged, Feb. 
22, 1865, returiiing t ) my FennsyhMLia 
home. 

I came to Kansas in the s[>ring of 
1867, to Black Jack, Douglas county, 
m{!k'Dg my home at Capt. Bell's. I 
farmed and taught school around there 
two years; then in company with Jim 
Keniiedy, All Both aud others I cane 
down to the Sac and Fox Reserve, and 
Feb. 28, (21) 1869 fi'ed on our claims, 
which were on the mile strip 'Trust 
Lands.' I laid claim on the southwest 
}i section 18, townshp 17 range 16 and 
put up a tent there. Jim Kennedy 
took the next one noith of me. These 
were all fractional quarters, containing 
about 130 to 137 acres each. Dave 
Stonebraker c ime down several mouths 
liter and took hs claim beside Kenne- 
dys. We lived in a tent at firs'", on 
K« nnedy's, and clubbed cur forces to- 
gther, doing some breaking; each of 
us had a horse. Roth. Kennedy and I. 
Kennedy got his house built about as it 
is now tbere on the farm, without tl e 
kitchen. He had money, and buiU, for 
those times, an unusualy g(.'0d house. 
He had m-irrled Capt. Bells daughter 
a-.d moved his family in Januiry, 1870, 
and I stopped with them for neatly 
lonr years. As y^u remember in Ih^ 



war sketch, we were both in the S3me 
company in the war. 

That winter or spring All Roth sold 
his cla'm out to Wm. Allison. Sr , 
who had come on from Canada. 

I gradually improved my place and 
got my home ready, and March 17, 1874 
I married Mi;S Maggie Daugherty of 
the neighborhood. 

The children born to us from that 
anion are all alive and all that I have 
— Wm. 11. Weber, Estelle V. Weber, 
and Ollie Weber. The two oldest are 
graduates of oar Lyndon High School, 
Slelle being one of the public teachers 
now. My wife Maggie died De;c. 21, 
1884. I was a widower four years with 
little children, daring which time my 
niece, Miss Anna Weber, Kept tire 
house and cared for the chiJdrea most 
of the time. She is now Mrs. Archie 
IngersoU of Lyndon. 

I was elected Clerk of the District 
Court in the fall of 1888. I then re- 
moved to Lyndon, and Feb. 27, 1889. 
was married in Topeks to Miss Millie 
Grioe, of Pennsylvania. 

Owing to the change in poli'ics in 
the county and state in 1890, 1 failed to 
get elected my second term, the Alli- 
ance party sweepifig a good share of 
the offices into their care ever since. 

I still live in town on my own prem- 
ises, retaining roy farm upon which 
Will Bodenhamer his lived for several 
yeirs. The income from the farm, my 
pension and the fees of my offi^ieof 
Jus ice of the Peace, which I have held 
many years, more or le"s continuously, 
all make me satisfied to live and die 
right here in Lyndon, Kansas. 

I have always been connected with 
the Grand Army boys here and was 
elected Commander of the Post in 18S9. 
In 1894 I was elected one of the dele- 
gates from Kansas to the National En- 



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campment at Pittsburg, which trip I 
enjoyed very much. 

George Weber. 
Lyndon. Kacsis, February, 1897. 

the OSA.GE COUNTY BATTALION. 

1881. 

The expressed desire of the Topeka 
comrades, that Oiage Co. send its sol- 
diers in some kind of an org.inized body 
to attend its old soldier's reunion, Sept- 
15, 1881, impelled the comrades holding 
office at the couaty seat, to hold a meet- 
ing in Aug. to see the best plan to get 
the soldiers together. 

August 6, 1881, WarreQ W. Morris as 
President, and R. K. McConnell as Sect j 
J.S. Kennedy, J. H. Howe, and J. H. 
Siwell, as a conference committee, 
agreed on a plan and issued a call to 
the old so diers of Osage Co. 

Committees were appointed in five 
townships around Lyndon as follows* 

Valley Brook Twp. 
J. R. Hinton 
r. A. Downs. 
F. Ringhisen. 

Junction Twp. 
L N^. Morris. 
Amos Cook. 
Geo. McCullough. 

Agency Tv/p. 
Daniel Hare. 
Joe Marshall. 
Robert Neil. 

Melvern Twp. 
Maj. Jumper. 
Capt. Opdycke. 

O. S Starr. 

Fairfax Twp. 
B. G. Wilson. 
James Newton. 
Amos Worrell. 



These committees were requested to 
work up enthusiasm among the o d 
soldiers and turn out September 3rd at 
Lyndon for a mass meeting, and try 
and effect an organization among them 
as a regim nt. 

Lyodon immediately set to work to 
organize a company of veterans. The 
Grand Army Post d.d not seem to be 
in harmony that year with the o:d 
boys, so Capt. Whiarey went ahead 
and or^^aniz-d ihls company of 60 or 
more old veterans, as will be see i on 
page 113. 

After the comrades at the county 
seat had issued their notices and called 
a mass meeting at Lyndon Septembn' 
3,1881. Tlie Osage Ci'y comrades in- 
s sted on a ch mge and we got their 
heatty supp)rt. The place of meeting 
wa-i changed to Osage City for the date 
agreed upon above. Capt. Adm're, T. 
L. Marsha 1 and others threw their in- 
fluen-e in and s cur-, d the attendance 
there, Sept. 3rd, of Maj. Tom Anderson 
and Cap ain Joe Waters. It was a 
rousing big meeting of old soMiers 
from all round the county. Lew Finch 
of Burlingame, was chairman; J. V. 
Admire, S-cretary and committee on 
publ cation. After the speaking was 
through a commiitec) reported the fol- 
lowing nam-s as suitable persons to of- 
ficer the proposed 

OSAGE COUNTY BATTALION: 

H. K. McConnell Colonel, 

Hairisoa Dubois Lieut. Col, 

Geo. W. Morris Major, 

Chas. Cochran Adjt, 

W. C. Sw^eezey Sarg. 

Chas. Foulks Q. M. 



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1 fmd the LyiK^oii Leader of Septein- 
tember 8th full of military notices. 

SuperintendeDt McConnell, as Col., 
issues notices to the old boys about the 
time of starting up to the Topeka Re- 
union and about the Battalion falhng 
in at the Topeka depot for maich to the 
Reunion grounds. A special early 
morning train from Emporia Septem- 
ber 15th landing the bo}s there at 8:30 
A. M. 

The Lyndon Curcet Band in good 
organization and one of the best out of 
a half dozen leading bands of the State, 
headed our Lyndon Veteran Company, 
which at Topeka all merged into the 
one Battalion. Xot being present that 
year of 1881, I cannot sp ak further 
but the old boys came home fairly en- 
thused with the good times touching 
elbows with each other once more. 

That December Andy Cotterman 
was elected Commander ot the Po^t to 
serve in 1882. Capt. Whinrey's veteran 
company disbanded and thereafter the 
several Grand Army Posts in Osage. 
CouDty went to make up the Osage 
County Battalion. 

The next mass meeting of old soldiers 
was held in Lyndon August 31, 1882. 
A preliminary meeting was held Aug. 
nth at Osage City, at which Sim Brad- 
ford p.esided. There we;e five Gra' d 
Army Post :n the county than and they 
resolved to bave Senator Plumb invi ed 
to speak, to the old soldiers at Lyndon 
the 3lst, if agreeable all round. 

Col. A. K. McConnell called the Osa^e 
County Battalion together with all old 
soldiers to meet at Lyndon on that 
date. 

The Lyndon Leader contain^ such a 
good account of the program and do- 
iijgs that 1 copy it all into my book: 

FMKXMIA.M. 

All Posts of (;. A. II. and all old sol- 
diers will meet at ihe hall of Lyndon 



Post at 1C:30 o'clock A.M., where the 
procession will immediately form and 
marc a through the principal streets to 
the M. E. church under the direction of 
the officers of tbe day, headed by the 
Cornet and Military Bands. 

OKDER OF EXERCISES. 

Prayer. 

Song by the Choir, 

Address '\Ye'.come,'.P. C. Lyndon Post. 

Response P. C. Carbondale Post. 

S jng, -Army Beans'. ........ .by Choir. 

Invocation Rev., G. W. Browning. 

Bugle call. 

DINNER. 

Bugle call, 'Fall in.' 

Address by. Col. Plumb, 

Music by Band. 

'Our Xatioiial Flag'. .Rev. Oscar Green. 

'B ys in Blue" .J; M. xVsher, 

Song, 'liiave Jiuys are They'. 
'.:?anitar} Conrjmission' Dr. C.'AV. Sweezey 
'Our Fdllen Comradea' Dr. L. W. Schenk 
SoLg by the Ctio'r, 
'Grand Army of thp Republic,' ' 

......'.... GMil. H. K. McConne r, 

'The Camp" Dr. W. J. Washburn," 

Song, ' Tentifjg ( n the Old Camp Ground* 

'TheFiad' Hon. C. S.Mai tin, 

'The March' . . . , Maj A . H. Jumi. er 

Song 'Marching Through Georgia,' 
'Army; of the Frontier and Southwest', : 

...1.... W W. Moirip, 

'Government Mule' E. G. Russel, 

So.ig, 'Old Shady,' 

'South^in Loyalists' J. R. Poe, 

'Pr soners of War' ......... L. E. Finch, 

Song, 'Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,' 

'Coming 11 ome' J. Y. Admire^ 

Md,riial Music, rJohny Comes Marching 
. Home" ' 

Conie everybody and will hive a good 
time. Ot; er prominent speakers will be 
prc;sent, from home and abroad. 
J. T. Undkrwood, ) 

J II. Howe. ,' Com. 
W. W. :Morkis, ) 



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FoUowiDg is the report of the pro- 
ceedings as copied from the Leader of 
August 31, 1882: 

GALA DAY. 

A Large Crowd and a Good Time. 

"It is the biggest day Lyndon ever 
saw, is what everyone said. It is a day 
that will be remembered by both young 
and old. 

The morning opened cold with a 
light rain and it looked for awhile that 
the weather would prevent the attend- 
ance of any great number from a dis- 
tance, but as the day anvanced the 
clouds lighter;ed and the people began 
to arrive, so that by half past ten the 
visiting posts had arrived. 

"By eleven o'ckck the line of proces- 
sion h id been formed by the marshals 
and they moved. The column being 
made up as follows: 

Marshal J. R. Drew, Assistant Mar- 
shal J. T. Underwood, Lyndon Cornet 
Brind, Jim Bain leader; Lyndon Post 
No. 19, w^th 65 men commanded by J. 
M. \\ hinre\ ; 0>age City Martial Band, 
Osag ^ City Pust Xo. 11, with 50 men 
commanded by T. L Marshal, carriage 
containing Senator Piumb. Postmaster 
Whiite core and Tre sarer John Ran- 
kin, carriage with Mayor Keenan and 
J. H. Ssavely, Burlingame CornetBand 
W. C. Chatfield, leader, Burlingame 
Post Xo. 35, with 35 men commanded 
by J. H. Burke. Carbond^le Post Xo. 
94, with 25 men, commanded by S. B. 
Bradford. 

'' The procession paraded some of our 
streets, which were thronged with peo- 
ple from every part of the county. 

"The column finally halted at the new 
Methodist church where the exercises 
of the day were to be held. The audi- 
ence room was already filled with the 
exception of the seats reserved for the 
soldiers. AV. A. Cotterman. command- 
er of the Lyndon Post. G. A. R.. was 



master of the ceremonies, and after the 
meeting was opened with prayer by 
Rev. W. W. Curtis, he delivered an ad- 
dress of welcome, which was respond- 
ed to by S. B. Bradford, of Carbondale. 

After the choir, consisting of Mrs. 
Bowman, the Misses Whitman. Tweed 
and Blake and Messrs. Towers, Hen- 
derson and Drtw with Mrs. Etta Howe 
as organist, had rendered some music, 
the bugle sounded "Dinner," which 
was se^v^d in the basement of the 
church to a large and hungry multi- 
tude and yet there was plenty left. 

"In the afternooi! the mam address 
was made by S^i.ator Plumb, who spoke 
for an hour and a quarter, delivering 
an interesting speech on the soldier's 
life, which was replete with anecdote 
and full of pathos. The Senator was 
listened to by at least one thousand 
persons, who frequently applauded his 
remarks a- d che red him heartily W'hen 
he had finished. 

The only to ists that were responded 
to were those of Dr. Sweezey, on the 
'San-tary Commission' and Dr. Schenck, 
on 'Our Fal'en Comrades.' Time would 
not permit the h^^aring of others. 

A meeting of the old soldiers was 
then held and a committee was ap- 
pointed to select officers for the county 
battalicn the ensuing year. The com- 
mittee reported in favor of 

Major J. H. Burke, Burlingame Post, 
for Colonel; S. B. Bradford, Carbondale 
Pos^ Lieut. Col ; D. H. Dar>hauer, Lyn- 
don Post. Major; T. L. Marshal, Osage 
City Post, Quarter Master. Ihese gen- 
tlemen were elected. 

Colonel McCorinell then in a neat 
speech turned the command over to 
the new commander, who at once took 
charge of the battalion. 

It was decided to go to Topeka on 
the 13th of S-ptember The battalion 
then marched to the headquarters of 



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the Lyiidou Post, where they broke 
ranks after giving three cheers for the 
Lyndon Post, the people of Lyndon 
and Ci>l. McConnell.'' 

The history of the battalion in suc- 
ceeding years— 1883-"84 is but a repeti- 
tion of 1881-82. Many of our promi- 
nent county soldiers have held office in 
the battalion; and at the Topeka Re- 
unions, at Leavenworth in 1884, and on 
other occasions it made the old soldi«-r3 
of the county feel proud, when, with 
our two or three brass bands from 
Lyndon, Osage City and Burlingame, 
and all the Grand Army Posts with 
their banners and men we strung out 
400 in number. 

The five Posts alluded to in 1882 
were 

Post No. 11, Osage City, 

Post No, 19, Lyndon. 

Post No. 35, Burlingame, 

Post No. 67. Scranton. 

Post No. 94. Carbondale. 

In 1893 I find three more Posts no- 
ticed, that had been organized several 
years then, viz: 

Post No. 221, Quenemo, 

Post No. 237, Overbrook, 

Post No. 238, Melvern. 

All these Posts are active and doing 
good work now. as far as I know. 

The day for the necessity of an organ- 
ization like the Osage County Battalion 
is past, for it has been at least eight 
years that 1 know of since any gath- 
ering. 






Sketches of the lives of A. M. 
Sanderson and C. R. Green, tenth 
and eleventh commanders of lyn- 
DON Post. 

A. M. SANDERSON. 

At the request of the historian, Com- 
rade Sanderson, who was the tenth 
Commander of Lyndon Post No. 19 
Kansas, contributed the following 

SKETCH : 

I was born near Massillon, Stark 
county, Ohio, June 24, 1835, and cast 
my first vote for John C. Fremont for 
President— (1856). 

I left Ohio during the fall of 18g4. 
goi g to Leesburg, Kosciusko couLty, 
Indiana. November 14. 1856 1 WhS 
married to Elizabeth Edman, my pres- 
ent Wife I e.ilist-d in Co E, 12 Ind. 
Infdbtry. under Capt. R- uben Williams 
(now Brig. General ). Oct. 9, 1861. 

I had plenty of work, and was mak- 
ing from S3.00 to S5.00 a day, but be- 
lieving every one who possibly could 
shou'd go and help defend our flag and 
conbtitution of the best government 
the sun ever stone on, I gave up my 
work and enlisted. 

Having made up ray mind to enlist, 
I went home and told my wife. She 
said while she dreaded to have me go, 
if I felt it to be my duty, she would 
not say nay; and with a "God bless and 
care for you,'" j was off for the war, 
leaving her and the child to get along 
alone. I went to Indianapolis, thence 
we went direct to "Dani No. 4" on the 
Potoffac rivn, Md , wl ere we helped 
guard that stream, niainly to keep ar- 
ticles contraband of war i'r:mi being 
crossed over to Virginia. At that time 
salt was worth only .^10.00 per bushel; 
(juinine the b^iino per ounce. 

During .January, 1862 there was an 



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attempt made to destroy Dam No. 4 as where Johnson had wiiit-i\d h's army, 
it was a feeder to the canal by which It was here I saw my firoi Quakergacs 
much forage and supp ies were shipped mounted on the breastworks. Our 
t J llarperaFtrry. During this exchange next and final stop was at Warrenton 
of shot and shell our Capt , with 10 boys Junction, where we relieved Blenker 
while reconoiteri g got surr.aiiided tj and his men, who, by the way, had been 
rebel cavalry and were taken prisoners, subsistiig off the country They had 
This was on the upper Potomac, above eaten everything bur, fence r-iils, and 
Harpers Ferry. had commenced on ihem. Here we re- 

in February, 1862 we crossed the Po- mained until May; our time having ex- 
tomac an Williamst'ort, Md., and moved pired, we were shipped to Wash ngton 
to M rttnsburg, Va , thence to Bunker in box cars, where we were indue 
Hill, where we m^-t some rebel cavalry time discharged and returned home. 
hard. From there w<^ moved slowly, When I think of sleeping under sno«^ 
sometimes camping as high as three at Wincht^ster, waking up in the night 
times in the same place. From Bunker on Bull Pturi battlefield, the water run- 
Hill to Winchester it was one contin- ning through our tent four inches 
uous skirmish. The night before we deep; lying on our guns at Dam No. i 
entered Winchester we camped in an in an old log barn, he wind howling a 
open field without our tents, but well perfect hurricane, not daring to speak 
supplied with amunition, (as though an >bove a whisper, expecting to be fired 
extra 20 rounds could warm us). We on t very moment; then out on picket 
were completely worn out and glad of at W illiamsport, the murcury 12 below 
the chance of resting our weary bodies, zero, no tire and all joa could do to 
In the morning on waking we found keep the wind from st(-aling your blan- 
we had an extra b'anket of about 4 in- ket; a^ain on picket en the Potomac, 
ches of snow. After hot coffee and wheie it is 270 yards wide, it makes me 
hard tack we were ordered to pile shudder to go over the old times again 
knapsacks and overcoats, foroa a line when it was cold enoug'i tj form an ice 
and go for the breastworks north of from shore to shore dur.ng one day aLd 
town. Dur ng the night the enemy nigh^, and where we had to relieve one- 
had evacuated fend we only captured an^ ther every 10 or 15 minutes to keep 
about 20 stragglers. From here we from freezing to de ith; the. e and many 
s'arted east, Gen Shields in command, other exposures I could relate, I do not 
the morning of the fl^ht which occuired wonder that we havd t j end our days 
in the atteraooa at Winchester, we i" suffering. No, my citizen friend 
crossed the Shenandoah, at 6nick r's and neighbor, you never did, nor you 
Ft-rry by fording. It was from 3 to 4 never can realize what we passed 
feet deep, rocky bottom, very uneven through a:.d what we n )W are suffer- 
and by no means hot. Near Aldee, a iog- Miy the time never come when 
small town on the east side of the our children or their children shall be 
mountain, we stopped long enough to called on to go in defense of our coun- 
bury a comrade who was in some way try. But should it come, do not fear 
poisoned ; supposedly by eating some or shirk your duty. Hunor and sup- 
p.ovisions bought from citizens. porL our g'onous bann^r—tjie stars a-id 

Our next point was Manasses, thence stripes un.terany and a'l circumstances, 
to Culpepper; then to a small town A. M, Saxdersox. 



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ADDITIONAL HISTORY. 

Mr. Sanderson's occupation in life 
has been one of handling tools as well 
as farming, being a carpenter and wag- 
on maker. 

He left Indiana the fall of 1884, liv- 
ing the first winter in Shawnee county. 
Next spring he moved onto a piece of 
land he bought in Arvonia township 
on the Marais des Cygnes river, being 
the west 80 of northeast quarter, sec- 
tion 17, township 18, range 17. living 
there four years. He then came to his 
present home in Lyndon, and has fol- 
lowed his occupation of carpentry and 
wagon repairing ever since. 

Mr. Sandersons have had eleven chil- 
dren born to them, of which live died 
in early childhood. There are tbrcc 
boys and three girls alive, all but the 
oldest liviog in or near Lyndon. Foar 
are married and in homes of their own, 
as follows: 

Ann Launa Sanderson, the oldest 
alive, was married May 6, 1886 to Dr. 
J. G. L. Myers, and lives at Blooming- 
dale, Ind. They have six children. 

Sarah Miriam Sanderson was mar- 
ried April 25, 1889 to Fred N. Davis of 
Lebo. Kansas. They have one child 
and live here in Lyndon. 

Milton Edman Sanderson married 
July 21, 1890 to MiPs Madge Ilazerigof 
IJurlington, Kansas. They live in L}n- 
dou and have a family of lour children. 

Austin Leon Sanderson was married 
July 13. 189t> to Miss Katie A. Uicp. 
(laughter of Cam'^l^ice. 4 miles east 
of i^vndon. near wheie they have set- 
tled.' 

Emilit' Marie Sanderson was one of 
the seven of the first sradualing class 
in 1895 of the Lyndon High School and 
at the present time is succ3essfn]ly 
conductinir the Panteg school in this 
county. Her home is with her parents 
in Lyndon. 

Harold MarkU y Sanderson is a youth 
of IT), at home and attending the High 
School. 



C. R. GREEN. 

The Eleventh Commander of Lyndon 
Post— 1895. 

Charles R. Green was born Novem- 
ber 8, 1845 at Milan, I^]rie county, jOhio. 
He was raised in Wakeman andClarks- 
lield townships, Huron county, Ohio, 
where his father followed farming and 
the son, the eldest in a family of ten, 
got what c jmmon school education one 
could under such circumstances. 

Being a'ive to the issues that brought 
on the war, he tried to go in the fall of 
1861 fS a soldier in the 55th Ohio, which 
was recruiting around him, but his 
father objected as he was only a lad, 
less than 16 years old. 

The next summer, when, after the 7 
days' batt es by McClellan's army in 
front of Richmond, in July, President 
Lincoln issued his call for 2O0,CO0 more 
volunteers. Comrade Green, though 
only then a lad of 16)^ years and 133 
pounds weight, enlisted August 8, 1862, 
in Co. A, 101st Ohio Volunteers, for 3 
years or. during the war. The father 
did not consent, however, to his son's 
going until after he had be^n examined 
by a county m-dical board and got his 
exemp ion papers, a^, being under 45 
years of age, he was otherwise subject 
to draft. So after taking this pre- 
caution for the welfare of the family, 
the father was willing to let Charles go 
to the war. Nine enlisted in the 101st 
Ohio from Charles Green's home-town. 
C arksfield, that August. 

The following summary of their ser- 
vice is only one of ten thousand such 
eases from towns all over the land, in 
the war of the Hebellion, 
Watson Rowland died January 81, 1863 

at Nashville. 

Henry Fish diedatMurlreesboro, Tenn 
April 25. 1863. 

Clark Barber died July 7, 1863 at Louis- 
ville, Ky. 



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Charles Scot^, killed May 19, '64, A' Ian- called to Covington Itodq Ohio and In- 
ta caoQpa'ga. diana were transferred to Louisville 

Byron Scotl was never mustered. and October 1st to 3rd, put into the 

Edwin W. Cunningham was discharged old brigades of Genl. Bueli's aimy and 
from field service by reason of d.sa- £Oon m irched out to the battle of Per- 
b'.lity in 1803, but at the snme lime rjviile, Ky., Oct, 7th and 8th. 
was commissioned a United States The lOIst did not shed any blood 
hospital steward in the regular army, here, although under fire. They were 
which office he filled a year or more, put into Gen. Carlin's brigade of Genl. 
wh'-'n he resigned andreiurned home Jtff C. Davis' division, Gen. A. D. Mc- 
to his studies, and came to Emporia, Cook's corps, Rosecran's army. They 
Kansras in an early day, where he is remaiued in this organization until af- 
k'iowa as Judge Cunningham at the ter the battle of Chickamauga, and 
present writing. through the whole war had as fellow 

Levi O. Eowland received bad w^ounds comrades in the brigade. Grant's old 
at the bittle of Slone Biver, Dectm- regimsnt, the 2lst 111., the 38th 111,, and 
btr 31, 1802. He rem-iiued about 14 the 81st lud. 

months in the hospital, when Febru- When the lOlst Ohio Infantry was 
ary 15, 1864 he was dischargrd, and put into this brigade of soldiers at 
has been a sufferer fr>>m the same Lou sville, the eld regiments had seen 
di-a'i ity ever since. almost a year's active service and had 

Myron Furlong was discharged Febru- fought many battles and sisirnjishes 
ary 10, 18o3 on surgeons certificate of and to have a regiment a thousand 
disability. strong put with them was a God-send 

This disposes of eight, and the Ohio ind -ed. Scorning to carry a knapsack 
Book of Records, Vol. 7 goes on to or blanket in the summer; desiring but 
state that Charles B. Green w:.s mus- the one shirt to their backs, they came 
tered out with his company at the end m from their long chaste after Bragf, 
oMhe v,ar, June 12, 1865, the only one up from luka. Miss., ragged, dirtyj 
of the nin3 who was able So tee the war locks unshorn, Jousy with graybacks' 
tbr.)ugh and come home with his c-ni- aclebt in the art of living off the coun- 
mand; not by reason of strength and try. Their ofhcers even boasting that 
health, but by t.n overruling P.ovidence th<^lr men could stop, slaughter a 
which singles out some tj death and hog or cook a cup of coifee and not ia- 
others to lifelong suffering— some to terrupt the day's steady march. Such 
gl'>ry and others to sorrow. were the companions who kindly look- 

The lOlst Ohio's first service in Dixie ed the new levies over and shouted 
was to help repel G^n. Kirby Smith's "fresh fish"' on that Ky. niirch of '62, and 
rebel raid on Covington, Kentucky a^d who considerately allowed them tj car- 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Here is where Gov. ry blanke;s and knapsacks in the day 
Todd of Ohio, in September, '02 call-d time, tint the old ioidiers might ha^e 
on the men of his state to rally at once their contents to use the next night, 
in the defense of their homes. Ti;e The new troops soon fuund this game 
forces who volunteered on that occa- out, and a:so the folly of carrying such 
sion were called ",squirrel hunters." heavy loads. The 81st lud., which took 
When the danger was over at this pi.'int their place in the brigade that fall in 
the many regiments of new soldiers tlie place oi Col. ilea's X.-r,veg;an reg- 



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imeDt, the lotli Wisconsin, transferred, 
was also a new regiment, and both had 
to put up with the old soldiers' abuse 
and ridicule several months, until the 
battle of Stone River baptized them iu 
blood, the 101st proving their heroism by 
leaving half their number on tlie bat- 
tleliekl. 

The Kentucky march had been a 
long, wearisome one to the new soldiers 
—from Louisville to Nashville, made 
in dry weather with a good many de- 
viations or side trips, and the sudden 
change of weather, which, October 26th 
brought snow to the depth of several 
inches. Tuis occurred while they were 
encamped at Eolling Forks and caused 
much sickness from the exposure, and 
before they got down into Tennes- 
see ready ^or the battle of Stone River 
the 10 1st Ohio was reduced to less than 
one-half effective men for duty, and 
company A, to which Mr. Green be- 
longed, which had left Ohio with 96 
men, and in November had 41 men, 
entered their first real battle with 
only 28 men for duty. 

At the beginning of the battle, 
December 26th, all men not able to 
stand the march and exposure were or- 
dered to the rear with the wagon tr^'in, 
so that Mr. Green, being among this 
number, missed the heaviest days* bat- 
tle—December 31st, but hearing of the 
almost total annihilation of his regi- 
ment, joined the army at the front in 
time to be in the last two days' battle, 
and when he found his company nine 
men only weie left, and on-y 110 in the 
regiment. Jjoth Colonels and other of- 
hceis of the companies were killed or 
wouuded. Nejrly all the wounded ai.d 
manyotheis were taken prisoners. In 
a day or two enough stragglers came 
lip to iiuike over 200 present. The 
lighting before and after lasted six dajs 
and at its close ihe battle lield.with all 



the union dead and many of the rebels 
fell to the union army. Here Comrade 
Green helped to bury one of their own 
mess and 12 others of the regiment, all 
in one wide grave, on the battle tield. 
The union army camped around Mur- 
freesboro the next six months. The 
people thought Genl. Rosecrans with 
his magnificent union army of 50,000 
men would never get started south- 
ward again, but the 21th of June, '63 
found the army in motion, and active 
campaigning was going on until after 
the battle of Chickamauga. Mr. Green 
was all through the campaign with bis 
regiment, and in the battle of Chicka- 
mauga got hit in three places two of 
the wounds being through each ami' 
From a regiment numbering 225 be- 
fore, the end of the battle left them 65 
men present for duty, and Co. A was 
reduced from 17 to 3 men, several being 
killed or badly wounded and left on the 
battlefield. Comrade Green's wounds 
were such as did not hinder his getting 
away, and he was absent six months 
back in Nashville and Ohio recov- 
ering from his wounds, getting two 
furloughs home in the meantime. In 
February, 1863. his arms not being 
strong enough to carry a gun, the med- 
ical authorities at Cincinnati thought 
to transfer him into the Invalid Ye: eran 
Reserve Corps, an organization in the 
rear to do guard duty over prisoners, 
recruits, commissary stores, etc. But 
Mr. (ireen concluded that if they want- 
ed his services to help put down the 
war, it must be at the front; so he took 
such a course that he fell into disgrace 
with the doctors, and as a punishment 
they ordered him sent to the front to 
rejoin his command at Chattanooga, 
the very thing, that he privately w^as 
working for; and, although not able for 
duty, he became so by the time Old 
iJilly Sherman started the army out for 



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the 100-days lighting of the Atlanta 
campaign. 

xVs usua', the very first battle they 
got into, which was a charge on Buz- 
zards' Roost, their company lost sever- 
al men, th3 Lieut comm;inding company 
and Orderly Sergenni both being killed, 
and all through the rest of tbat cam- 
paign the company never had over ten 
men, and for three weeks in front of 
Kenesaw Mountr.in, three mea only 
for dut} , C. R. Green btiug oiie of thi-m. 
THere were tour more present, but two 
were detailed in the Pioneer Corps and 
two were non-comiLissivned officers. 
The company w as attacht d to another 
company because there were no spare 
officers for i' ; and, to cut a. long story 
short, it never had more than 14 or 16 
men present again lo the end of the 
war. 

When the Atlanta campaign was 
over the Army ot the Cumberland un- 
der Gen). Thomas, was detached to 
marc-i b-ick into Tennessee and defend 
it against Hood's raid, while "Sherman 
miirched down to the se.i." 

The 101st Ohio was in Col. Kirby's 
Brigade. Genl. Sta;iley's Divis'.on, Gen 
O. O. Howard's 4th xirmy Corps in the 
most of the Atlausa campaign. When 
McPheisJU was k lied, July 22, 1864, 
Hovvard was pUced in command of the 
Army of the Tennesste, and Genl Stan- 
ley took the 4th Corps. But at the 
battle of Nashville and to the end of 
the war Genl. Ihomas J. Wood com- 
manded the 4th Corps, nnd when Genl. 
David S. v^tan'ey w s promoted. Gen. 
Nathan Kimball took the Division and 
was .ts c-mmander uniii the end of the 
war. Col. I. N. Kirby was the 101st 
Ohio's Colonel from the tattle of Scone 
River to the eiid of the wbr, nearly, but 
on pait of liie Atlanta campMign — the 
Franklia and Nash\ille days and to the 
end, he commanded the brigade, and 



was made a general at the last, richly 
meriting the promotion. 

Comrade Green was hit three times 
by missiles of war in the Gt orgia cam- 
paign but not serious enough to cause 
his falling out. Along in the fall of 
"64 the constant exposure and fatigue 
of a wet November while they were 
marching back into Tennessee, guard- 
ing and assisting along a wagon train 
of a thousand wagons more or less, 
over the Cumberland Mountains, so 
bore down on his heretofore rugged 
constitution that he came down sick 
with that dreadful army disease known 
as the "chronic diarrhoeri," aiid was or- 
dered to the Nashville hospital only the 
day before the tattle of Franklin where 
his regiment suffered a loss of a few 
men only, and in the battle of Nash- 
ville, December 15 and 16, '64, where 
Genl. Thomas so signally defeated 
Hood's rebel army, the regiment lost 10 
men. 

Mr. Green was away three months 
recovering his health Having been 
transferred lo Ohio hospitals, he had 
a furlough home, which was un- 
doubtedly the saving of. his life. 

The custom was by the army doctors 
then to give p enty of opium and qui- 
n ne and other equally strong drugs. 
Mr. Green, seeing that he did not recov- 
er by the hospital treatment, si;on took 
the practice of eating roasted cheese 
and cracker-: and drinking scalded milk, 
regularly tuiumg into the spit box the 
doses left by the doct >rs. 

In March, 1865 he rejoined his regi- 
ment at Huntbville, Ala., and the whole 
corps was soon transferred to East Ten- 
nessee, where they had to guard against 
a possibility of Genl. Lee's escape from 
Richmond vi-i Lynchburg into Tennes- 
see. Here the end of the war found 
them, and soon a!t( r they were trans- 
ferred to Nashville, and June 12th 



lo'o 



mustered out. They went in a body to 
Cleyeland, Ohio, where, on June 20, 
1865. they received their pay and were 
discharged. 

Mr. Green served 3 years, lacking 40 
days as a private. He now returned 
home to Clarkstield, Ohio. 

AFTER THE WAR. 

The war was over and here was C. E. 
Green, less than 20 jeaisold, with three 
years' experience in battling fi r him- 
self alone and with 500 dollars of his 
war money, but a great 3-year gap in 
his education stared him in the face, 
which he at once set out to fill by two 
years' attendance at the Milan, Ohio 
Normal School and a term of teaching 
school, not quitting until he was able 
to pass second grade in their coun'y 
examinations. 

April, 1867. in his 22d year, he follow- 
ed Horace Greeley's advice to young 
men by coming out to Kansas "to grow 
up with the country."" He landed in the 
Kaw river bottoms at Lenape, Leaven 
worth county, Kansas, where an uncle, 
James P. Green, was operating three 
steam saw mil's to f urn sh timber lor a 
hundred miles of the Union Pacilic 
Eailway from Junction City westward. 
The Delaware and Wjandolte Indians 
had just di-posed of their reserves but 
had not moved to the Territory, and 
"the noble red man"" was about the first 
attraction seen by Mr. Green in Kan- 
sas on stepping off the cars. 

After spending about two months 
with his uncle, who in the meantime 
removed to the "State Line" bottom 
of Kansas City. Missouri,^ which in "67 
had the State Line depot and very few 
other builiings on it, the last of M^y, 
"67 he concluded to go across the plains 
to California. 

Mr. Green got a position with a sur- 
veying party and went out across the 
plains, through New Mexico; Arizona 



and California to the Taciiic coast. It 
was a preliminary railway survey and 
exploring expedition run by the Union 
Pacific E. W. E. D. and the Govern- 
ment. The latter sending out a scien- 
tific party who discovered and report- 
ed the great coal fields of Trinidad and 
the Eaton Mountains, and who paved 
the way for Major Powell's geological 
survey of the Great Canon of the Colo- 
rado a few years later. 

The Santa Fe railroad some of the 
way runs over the route that Mr. Green 
helped to survey in 1867-68, for he was 
about a year absent fiom Kansas, re- 
tuinirgbyOld Mexico, Panama and 
New York. 

This was a very iriterc sting trip in. 
th8 days of the Santa Fe Trail, the 
Overland Stage, Indian war and "Cus- 
ter on the Plains." They were at Old 
Kit Carson's abode in the Eocky Moun- 
tains, and the many adventures and 
tales about this trip Mr. Green will put 
in a chapter to itself. 

When he came back to Kansas in 
1868 he spent three months with his 
uncle at Kansas City, h luii g to make 
tome of the first buildings of the biom 
on tho^e great bottLm^ before tl ere 
was auy Union Depot there. In Au- 
gust, getting tired of city life, he v/tnt 
up en the Delaware Eeserve in Leaven- 
worth county, half way between L'.av- 
rence and Leavenworth and bought 
himself a farm and went to teaching in 
the country schools. He taught more 
or less steadily the next six 5 ear.-, im- 
proving his farm and living on it, so 
that one day Avhen a man offered him 
S>3.600 for it he replied, "No, you can 
have it for $4,000, and not a cent h ss," 
but he would give possession at once 
of all crops, and the house. May 17, '73 
the sale was made and in a fefl^months 
Mr. Green closed up his business and 
term of school and took his family, 



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ccnsisting of wife and two childreD, 
and April, 1874 removed to Clarkstield, 
Ohio, three thousand dollars the richer 
for his Kans is experience. They were 
renters two >ears on their Father 
Green's farm, when they bought a farm 
of their own in Wakeman, and lived 
there four years. 

But six years in Ohio made him and 
his wife homesick lor the western peo- 
ple and opportunities to get ahead and 
they came back again, this time buy- 
ing and settling down on a farm in the 
Dane neighborhood, six miles west of 
Quenemo and four and a half south 
east of Lyndon, Osage county. 

Mr. Green did not wish to settle 
down ag.iin in Leavenworth county. 
Th8 taxes were very high there and the 
price of land four times as much as in 
newer counties. He carefully looked 
over ten counties in 1879 before locat- 
ing, and never regretted his final choice 
of Osage county. He lost considerable 
by the move to Ohio, but gained expe- 
rience. He settled here June 20, 1880, 

He married December 28, 1869 in 
Tama county, Iowa Tlavia Barbour, a 
playmate of his in Ohio before the war. 
Six children, three girls and three boys, 
were born to them from this union, 
when death claimed the wife, March 
21, 1883, at the age of 35, le-iving a 
little babe which Mr. Green gave to a 
sister in Ohio. 

The oldest of these children, Mary 
Alice Green, was married to Albert I. 
Haskins, of Wakeman, Ohio, in 1893 
and lives there. The eldest son, Ovid 
Elias Green, died September 15, 1889 at 
the age of 13. A little girl, Jennie 
Alda, died in 1885 aged 4. So that, not 
counting the two children in Ohio, Mr. 
Green has only two at home, Winifred 
B. Green, a young lady graduate of the 
''Class '95," Lyndon High School and a 



teacher of the county, and Norman B. 
Green, a young man of 19. 

For his second wife Mr. Green mar- 
ried November 17, 1887 Miss Annie 
Kring, one of his old Leavenworth 
couiity school pupils 

Mr. Green resides in a comforable 
home a mile or two south of Lyrdon. 
Being interested Iq horticulture, he has 
large orchards and acres of forest trees, 
vines, etc. He has built himself plenty 
of barns and other outbuildings, and a 
good house with a large fire-proof li- 
brary and museum room, so that he 
has no desire whatever to leave the 
farm tor town life. 

Always taking naturally to tools he 
has saved hund eds of dollars doing 
all of his oan building; and he finis 
that g od buildings and she'teied tools 
and stock are good invt stments ol a 
farm, and that though a man m ly love 
other pur.'u ts in 1 f e ard follow t'^m 
for a feeasi'n, there is nothing compar- 
ed to the ptace and happiness ant in 
dependen -e of living on a pleasantly 
located farm. And while he tried Flor- 
ida one winter season for his health, 
he found on his return here that Kan- 
sas, wayward as she is in many things, 
best suits him out of the 27 states and 
territories that he has been in during 
the last 40 years. And being the best 
to live in, all th ngs considered, cer- 
tainly then It is good enough to die in. 



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PKISON LIFE IN DIXIE. 



WM. HAAS WAR STORY. 



Will. Haas was born Xovember IT- 
1836 in Shenandoah county, Va. He 
left Virginia with his parents in 1838 
or '39 for Hatrison county. Ind., and 
went for himself altogether about 1858, 
settling in Knox, the northeast county 
of Mij-souri. 

In his Imguage he says: 

'•I enlisted in the 1st Battalon Mo. 
Home Guards, which afterwards went 
to make up the 21st Mo. Inft. about 
May 1, 1861, We were only about 300 in 
number in the state seivice for 6 
months, and had our hands full saving 
North Missouri to the Union. We 
were guarding railroad trains, bridges, 
and pre Venting. rebel recruiting officers 
from running off men to the rebel 
army. We were never south of the 
Missouri river. Towards the last of 
my service I was sick and did not en- 
list with these battalions of the State 
service into the U. S , constituting the 
2lstMo. Inft. My family was then 
at Laomi, near Springfield, III., so when 
discharged about Nov. 1, '61 at Canton, 
Lewis county. Mo., I joined my family 
in II inois. 

I enlisted in the U. S. service at 
Springfield, HI., in Co. B. 130th Inft the 
20th of Au^., 1862, Col. Niles command- 
ing. We were mustered and drilled at 
Camp Butler, remaining there until 
November 1, 1862. We were then 
transferred to Memphis and put on 
provost duty part of the time during 
the wiLter of '62 3. We belonged to 
McClernand's command, 13lh Army 
Corps, A. J. Smith's Div , and went 
down to Milliken's P>end with Grant's 
Vicksburg expedition the eaily part of 
the spring, where wiih thousands of 



other new troops we lost a great many 
from sickness and exposure in that 
swamp country opposite Vicksburg. 

About April, 1863 we broke camp 
and crossed over the 30 or 40-miie neck 
of land made by the Mississippi river 
there and came out below Vicksburg, 
still on the west bank. But enough 
transports and steamers hid run the 
gauntlet of rebel batteries and got 
down to our assistance so that Genl- 
Grant was able to immediately cross' 
his army to the eastern shore below 
Vicksburg and give battle to the rebel 
forces, first at Magnolia Hill, where we 
only got in at the tail end as a support 
to a battery. Champion Hills and Black 
River engagements followed in quick 
succession, enabling the union army to 
divide the rebel forces into two armies 
and forcing Gen. Pemberton's command 
back into Vicksburg. At Black River, 
May ITtb, we made a charge through a 
swamp and caused the rebels to sur- 
render. 

"I got hit by a bullet the 19th of M^y 
but the wouud was not serious enough 
to separate me from my command. 

About the 22nd of May Genl Oard 
superceded Genl. McClernand in the 
command of the 13Lh Army Cor^s. 
On this day there was a general charge 
of the union forces on the rebel vrojks 
of Vicksburg, but we could not take 
them, and there was a terrible loss of 
killed and wounded that d.iy. We lost 
U killed out of our regiment. We 
were now in very close quarterd at the 
siege of Vicksburg. The rifie pits 
where the skirmishers or pickets watch 
ed against any sudden dash of the en 
pmy were but a few yards in advance 
of the main breastworks, and we went 
and came from these pits only in the 
night time as it was instant de ith to 
expose our persons in daylight. The 



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sieg^ lasted until July 4, 1863, when 
Genl. PembertOQ surrendered Vicks- 
burg and his whole army, which Geul. 
Grant paroled to their southern homes, 
but many of them disregarded their 
paroles »nl were found fightiDg again 
for the Southern cause at Chickamau- 
ga, September, '63, before they had been 
exchanged. 

"After th8 Vicksburg campaign, be- 
ing sick with chronic diarrhoea and 
dropsy, I got a fui lough home. I was 
so bad that I had to be hau'.edfrom the 
cars honi'^, but after two or three 
months I tot well and joined my regi- 
ment wMoh was n'^w abcut 100 miles 
west of New Orleans in the sugar coun- 
try at New Ibtria, La. 8cme time in 
December, 1863 we went back to Al- 
giers near Xew Orleans andembaiked 
on a steamer and steamed down into 
the Gulf of Mexico and around into 
Metagorda Bay, coast ( f Texas, where 
we laid in camp a'l winter. March, '6-4 
we embarked again and went to Ber- 
wick Bay on the same coast, but near- 
er to G-ni. Banks' objective joint in 
the Bed River campiign of that year 
There were of oar 13th Corps, which 
was now commanded by Gecl. Ban^^om, 
two divisions. Dur division was com- 
manded by Genl. Vhuce. 

'•There was a rebel army in Texas 
and Western La. commanded by Genls. 
Kirby Smith ^ndDickTay 0",the whole 
otjecc of the Bed Biver campaign, 
which had been gradually working up 
for months, was to whip the rebel forc- 
es here and end the w^ar wett of the 
Mississippi river. 

"We marched up the country, our di- 
vision in advance and Genl. Bansom 
commanding. At Sabine X Roads 
near Mansfield in De Soto county. La., 
a good many days' march from the 
coast, we were attacked by the rebel 



forces and cut off from the rest of the 
army under Banks, which had not left 
camp that day, and there occurred the 
battle of Sabine X Roads. 

"Our forces numbered 2,300 at the 
front while the rebels had 8,600. 
Genl. Bansom was badly wounded at 
the start and Genl. Yance taking com- 
mand was killed, so that we labored 
under much confusion, and when tow- 
ards night the rebels surrounded us, al- 
though we had been fighting all day, 
and Banks did not reinforce us, we had 
no other alternative than to surrender. 
Lots of the union troops got through 
the rebel lines, so that they only cap- 
tured 1U4 prisoners. But it took about 
all bur regiment as well as others in 
our brigade. There was quite a loss 
of killed and wounded. This engage- 
ment was April 8, 1864. We surren- 
dered about sundown and were hur- 
ried off across the country to Camp 
Ford near Tyler, Texas. Banks with 
all his forces retreated and thus ioglo- 
riously ended the great Red River cam- 
paign. 

"We were in prison 414 days, until 
May 27, I860, the end of the war. Jas. 
Hencon, who bad enlisted in the same 
company and regiment with me at 
Springfield, Iil , was a fellow pr'soner 
?t Camp Ford. We had ten acres 
of a sandy knoll for a camp, fenced 
witli split logs eleven feet long, set on 
end in a trench so that eight feet stuck 
up above the surf ace of the ground on 
the inside of the stockade, while on the 
outside the rebels had earth banked up 
hwlf way, so that there was a good path 
for the guards to w'alk al ^ng on and 
their heads be two feet above the wall- 
Thus with their guns ever on guard a 
few men could wat> h four or five thou- 
sand of us. While there was plenty of 
timber in the coimfry around, they 



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^vould Dot allow us to get any of it for 
shelter from thi suirs rays— fuel we 
coull get. Whm tlie weather got cold 
in Xovembar they allowed us to go out 
under guard to cut aud bring in tini 
bei' from which we rove out shakes and 
made ouraeives littl-; shelters. lu the 
bailie we hid takeu oft" oar kn:ip>acks 
that contained our blankets and oil- 
cloths, aud when captured no one had 
any such ariicle scarcely in our regi- 
men^. As we were being huried oft" to 
the prison I saw a uirin ot the 77t:i 111 
with a woolen blanket lied around him 
aLd I offered him 85 for it, Avhich he 
ref ust-d; then I iocreased my bid, final- 
ly giving him a ten dollar greenback 
for it. This was all the blanket that 
was in our whole company there in 
pr. son that seas m. As the heat of 
summer came on we fastened it up 
with some little poles so tbat several ot 
us c juld crawi uuder it out of the dews 
and heat. No one can ever compre 
hend the endless misery of thousands 
of us, held there in that 10-acre prison- 
house of de th thit U months. The 
OQly relieving qunlities being good air 
and s-unshinn and plenty of nice spring 
water running out into three long 
troughs, sufticlent for all purposes. 
When we first went there, there were 
only two or three hundred prisoners in 
it, but the captures from our division, 
from A. J. Smith's command of the 
l()th corps Hud of a force of Gen. Steele's 
army up in Arkansas, all openit ng un 
der Banks in the K- d River campaign, 
soon SA-elled our number several thous- 
ands and the stockade had to be en- 
larged at once. The largest number at 
one time being 4,500 prisoners; healthy 
when capturnd; but c )nfine a large 
number of men to a meager diet and 
see how quick dise ise works havoc. 
Scurvy ana chronic diarrho-a soon lead 



all other sicknesses. We were fed 
mos'lyon corn meal and some beef. 
Puel and s ilt were both very scarce. 

Th"y could never count us very cor- 
rec ly. They would vary from 300 to 
50j of g.r.t ng a correct count. On ac- 
count of rations it being to our interest 
to appear mire numerous. A quarter 
of beef weighing 80 pounds had to sup- 
ply rations to one ward of 300 men. 
There were so many squads, so that af- 
ter the bones had all been broken up 
and the beef cut into small pieces 10 or 
15 piles would be made of that quarter 
and each one as near equal to the other 
as possible, and w^hile one turned his 
back another one would place his hand 
on the pile and ask the one with his 
back turned w^hose that should be and 
whatever mess was named had to ac- 
cept that as a fair division of the days' 
issue. Our regimental Quartermaster 
acted inside for all the forces. 

The rebel commandt-r of the camp, 
Col. Jennison, once while away left the 
camp in charge of his Adjutant, Mc- 
Cann. The boys would play Keno in- 
side, and he w^ould come in and steal 
their pile of money on the gambling 
board and then order them to disperse. 
The boys afterwards when they saw 
him coming would shout 'Keno' to each 
other so as to be on their guard. One 
morning as he was riding by camp on 
the outside some one hollowed 'Keno!' 
and then for fun the whole camp took 
it up. That night McCann, to punish 
them, withheld their rations, and all 
the next day they got none. Towards 
night our Q. M,, Johnson, went out to 
ask the reason why we got no rations 
and McCann replied that he intended to 
to starve the d — d Yanks out for hol- 
lowing Keno. Johnson vouched to him 
for the whole camp that they should 
no more hollow 'Keno.' The boys 



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agreed to it, so the next morning they 
g jt th-ir rations. 

•'Sometime about May 12, 1865 the 
whole force of prisoners were marched 
and hauled 120 miles to ShrcVepor^, 
La , on the Eed river, where we took 
steamer down that stream to the Miss- 
issippi. Here the rebels turned us over 
to the U. S., at a camp on the east bank 
where, as we landed under the o'.d 
Union flag, we marched by a row of 
cracker boxes and got our till 
once more. Thence to Xew Orleans 
where we were able to clean up and 
draw^ new^ clothing, mostly by aid of 
the Sanitary Commission. We stayed 
here a week, then w^ere transferred up 
the Mississippi to Jefferson Barracks 
at St. Louis. Here we drew our com- 
mutation money, i e, 25 cents a day for 
rations not furnished us by Uncle Sam 
while in prison, j received 3103.50. 
From there* w^e Illinois soldiers went to 
Springfield. III., where we w^ere muster- 
ed out and paid off Juie 24, 1865. And 
this was the end of my war service, but 
it left me sick, scurvy in my limbs, 
chronic diarrhoea in my system, as well 
as an awful cough, which ailments I 
have never entirely got over yet.'" 

Wm. Haas. 



LYISOON GUAKDS. 

J. H. STATELY, CAPT. 

1881. 

The organization of the Valley Brook 
Veteran Company at Lyndon about 
September 5, 1881 by Capt. Whinrey 
and others as one of the companies of 
the Osage County Battalion so inauga- 
rated a martial spirit here in Lyndon 
that the boys, young men and men of 
middle age caught the desire to be or- 
ganized into a company for drill and 
use upon occasions of public necessity. 



In fact the young men organized into 
a militia company similar to the one at 
th^t time ia Burlmgame. 

Ths company was called the "Lyn- 
don Guards." I do not know who was 
instrumental in get'ing it up, but I 
prtsume from the fact that Joseph II. 
Stavely, George W. Morris, of the firm 
Fairbanks & Merrls, and Jamts W. 
Bain, the leader of the Cornet Band, 
were elected officf rs, that they w^ere at 
the if. c ptionof i he movement as was 
R. A. Midrr and Hany Rogers. Upon 
talking with Mr. Stav. ly a^ on it re- 
cently, he said that all memoranda of 
its organization and list of members 
seemed to be lost; that it numbered 60 
members; that the company failed to 
get the Adjutant of the state to accept 
them as a company ( f rhe S'a'e Militia 
u.ider the plea that there were a^rsidy 
more ( ompanies in this district thaa 
the law desig ed, and such b-ing the 
case, the State would not furnish them 
wi h uniforms and guns, so in the 
spring of 1882 the organization disband- 
ed. 

I noticed in the Lyndon Leader No- 
vember 10, 1881 that Capt Fii cb a^ d 
Lieut. C. P. Drew, of Co. I, 1st. R gt. 
Kansas State Militia, Burling-ime, Kan- 
sas same down the previous Friday 
evening and adminibteied the required 
oa'h to the Lyndon Guards. After 
which an election of officers was held 
by which J. H. Stavely was elected 
Capt , G. W. Morris 1st Lieut., and J. 
W. Bain 2nd Lieut. Then, Xovember 
29th, Jas. Bain having res'gned to go 
away, a meeting was called to fill his 
office. Thereafter I found no further 
mention. 






142 

1^1 ST OF MEMBEllS 

Coliiiubian Camp, No. 126, Sons of Veterans. 



XAME. 


AGE '97. 


BIRTHPLACE. 


father's name, father's reg't. 


W. A. Green, 


33 


Pennsylvania. 


W. H. Green, 


202 Pa. Inft. 


E. C. AVilsoD, 


21 


Indiana. 


A. L. Wilson, 


84 Ind. 


Thos. Sowell. 




Kansas. 


J. H. Sowel], 


2 Colo. Cav. 


Harry Eogers, 


37 


Illinois, 


Wm. Rogers, 


130 111. Vol. 


L. T. Hussey, 


31 


Ohio, 


Jerry Hussey, 


34 Ohio. 


AVill Weber, 


23 


Kansas, 


Geo. Weber, 


11 Pehn. Res. 


Ed Swisher, 


29 


Illinois, 


11, C. Swisher, 


85 III. 


J. I. JSweezey, 


36 


Indiana, 


W. C. Sweezey, 


140 Ind. 


C. Hollingsworth, 


26 


Iowa, 


N. Hollingsworth, 


10 111. 


John Evans, 


22 


Illinois, 


J. Evans, 


196 Ohio. 


John Woods, 




" 


J. W. Woods, 


15 III. Inft. 


All Starr, 


27 


Kansas, 


0. S. Starr. 


3 Ohio Cav. 


Geo. B. Weber, 


35 


Pennsylvania, 


John Weber, 


134 Pa. 


E. A. Powell, 






L. W. Powell, 


116 Ohio. 


Erank Downs, 


29 


Iowa, 


F. Downs. 


10 Iowa. 


Ered Swisher, 


23 


Illinois, 


H. C. Swisher, 


85 111. 


Lloyd Green, 


26 


Ohio. 


W. D. Green, 


192 Ohio. 


C. Dougherty, 


28 


W. Virginia, 


E. M. Dougherty, 


15 W. Va. Inft. 


Leslie Eix, 




Kansas, 


C. W. Fix, 


9 Kan. Cav. 


Ed Rocliey. 






J. S. Rockey, 


105 Pa. 


Will Starr. 


23 


Kansas, 


0. S. Starr, 


3 Ohio Cav. 


W. H. Erather, 


26 


<( 


B. Prather, 


24 Ind. Inft. 


H. Woodward, 


22 


(( 


C. E. Woodward, 


1st N. Y. Art. 


W. H. Wynne, 




Missouri, 


R. H. Wynne, 


1st Mo. S. M. 


Kiim Oard. 




Indiana, 


G.W. Oard, 


83 Ind. 


EdMcWhinney. 


24 


Illinois, 


L. McWhinney, 


123 ill. 


Wm. Plaimty, 




Michigan, 


J. Plaunty, 


1st U. S. Eng. 


W. D. Criley, 


25 


Ohio, 


A. H. Ciiley, 


44 Ohio. 


Elza Rogers, 


24 


W. A'irginia. 


Jas. Rogers, 


15 Va. 


Will Eock, 


39 


Indiana, 




5th Ind. Cav. 


John Capper, 


21 


Sac and Eox A,, A. Capper. Gunboat U. S. :N . 


W. L. Kirkbride, 


30 


Ohio, 


J.M. Kirkbride, 


179 Ouio. 


E. B. Kirkbride, 


26 


a 


u 




('has. Bessee, 


33 


Illinois, 


B. F. Bessee, 


75 III. Inft. 


L P. Darnell. 


23 


Kansas, 


A. J. Darnell, 


2 Kan. Cav.' 


Erank Swisher, 


21 


Illinois, 


H. C. Swisher, 


85 III. 


WilUlinghisen. 


23 


Kansas, 


F. Ringhisen, 


58 Ohio. 


Mart Goodrich, 


22 


Ohio, 


H. L. Goodrich, 


145 N. r. 


Bart HolliDgsworth, 21 


Kansas, 


N. Hollingsworth, 


10 111. Inft. 


J. S. Kittrell, 


21 


Tennessee, 


J. M. Kittrell, 


2nd Tenn. 


W. E. Miller, 


42 


Indiana, 


G. W. Miller, 


21 Kan. S. M. 



14:] 



NA^IE. AGE I).. lUKTlli'LACE 

A.E. Madaris, 21 Kansas, 

AV. II. Starkey, 21 

AV. II. bhideler, 23 Indiana, 

Henry Obert'elt, 40 Missouri. 

C. M. Hinton, 23 Kansas, 

Ch <s. Ring hi sen, 26 

J. F. Wilden. Missouri, 

E. Siturgiu, 30 Tennesssee. 



KISTOKY OF THE 

SONS OF VETERAXS. 
Columbian Camp Xo. 126, Lyndon. 

Long after the old soldiers had join- 
ed th-i Post and the Womans Relief 
Corps had been in active organization 
the old solditrs' boys got up. interest 
enough to unite and form a camp. 
The old soldiers had to brace ihem up 
a good deal, perhaps because a majority 
of them were pretty young. They or- 
ganized their camp here at Lyndon 
about September 1, 1893. 

OFFICERS. 

W. A. Green Capt. 

E. C. Wilson 1st Lieut, 

Tom So well 2nd Lieut, 

Will Weber 1st Sergt, 

EdSwishtr Q. M. Sergt. 

1894. 

W. A. Green Capt. 

George Weber 1st Lieut, 

Frank Downs 2nd Lieut. 

Will Weber 1st Sergt, 

Ed Swisher Q. M. Sergt. 

1895. 

Geo. Weber Capt, 

Clint Hollingsworth 1st Lieut, 

I. P. Darnell 2nd Lieut, 

W. D. Criley 1st Sergt, 

Ed Swisher Q. M. Sergt. 

After several meetings which were 
poorly attended, they died out for the 
balance of the year. 



. FATIIEU'S NA3IE. FATHER'S REU'T. 

W. A. Madaris, 21 Knn. S. M. 

John StiU'Key, 191 Ohio. 

E. Sbideler, 84 Ind. In ft. 

„_ Mo. Intt. 

Jiimes J. Ilinton, 130 111. Inl't. 

F. Ringhisen, 58 Ohi. . 
Geo. Wilden. 40 111 In ft. 
J. E. Spurgin. Tenn Scout. 

1896. 
Two or three meetings in May were 
1 eld and a reorganization was eltVced 
as follows: 

W. A. Green Capt, 

Ed Swisher 1st Lieut, 

I. P. Darnell 2nd Lieur, 

Will Weber 1st Sergt, 

W.D. Criey Q. M. Sergt. 

There have been no further meetings 
held since So many of the Sons of 
Veterans belong to the Bdnd and to 
ether organizations that there does not 
seem to be room or time to carry the 
Sons of Veterans. The country boys, 
who desire it the most, are the poorest 
to keep up any regular attendance, and 
for the time being the order is t^lumber- 
ing, although they can and do turn out 
good firing squads on soldier funeral 
occasions, and Capt. Wilbur Green is 
ready to meet with the camp on all oc- 
casions. 



^i^ 



144 



NELS HOLLINGS WORTH. 

The Sixth Commander of L3nidon Post 
1891. 

His wife, Mrs. Martha Holliags worth, 
at the same time being President of 
The Womans Kelief Corps, No. 14t3. 

Nelson Hollingsworth w^as born June 
7, 1841 in Wayne county, Ind ana. His 
parents removel from thereto Oquaka. 
Henderson county. 111. when he was 
live years old. There were six boys in 
the family who grew up, of which Nel- 
son was next to the youngest. His fa- 
ther had a water grist mill in Oquaka 
on Fall creek, and alsj a farm. Nelson 
says that he put in mast of his youth 
working around the mill, getting only 
a common school education. 

He was twenty years old when the 
war commenced and early went as a 
volunteer. 

In his language he says: 

"I enlisted in Co. E, 10th HI. Inft. in 
July, 1861. It was among the first 
three-years regiments raised. There 
were companies in it from all over the 
sta*e, who, failing to go oat in the three 
months service, still kept up organiza- 
tions for drill purposes, and after the 
disastrous battle of Bull Run were 
ready at once to respond to President 
Lincoln's call for three-year men. 

Our Captain was Charles Cowan, who 
had been our county clerk 12 years and 
was an elderly man having the esteem 
of all who knew him. 

The company was slow in reporting; 
and was the last of the ten companies 
to join the regimental organization at 
Cairo August 28, 1861. We remained 
here until fall, when we moved to 
Mound City, III., opposite Kentucky. 
Thence, in February, we took a scout 
of two weeks into Kentucky, about the 



days when Genl. Grant Avas figlitiag at 
Fort Donelson. Soon after this we 
were p.it into the Misi-i sippi A' my 
that began the reduction of Island No. 
10 We captured New Madrid We 
were in Gt n'l Pope's army on the Mis- 
souri side Thip, Mar. 13, 1862. was our 
first engagement, Hud April 8th tl e 
rebe's evacuated Island No 10. 

Af ter th s we went down the Miss- 
issippi on transports scouting, but af- 
ter Grant's troops fought the batt'e of 
Pittsburg Landing or Shiloh, Genl. 
Halleck called us back to h-lp in the 
siege of Corinth. We went on trans- 
ports up the Mississippi and Tennes- 
see rivers. This siege of Corinth was 
a very tedious affair. Genl. Ha'eck 
had been appomted over Genl. Grant 
and had a large army but was afraid lo 
attack the rebel army, and so every 
mile and half mile that he advanced 
upon the enemy at Corinth he had the 
army stop and build a long line of en- 
trenchments. Corinth was 30 miles 
from Shiloh and took a month for Hal- 
leck to advance and lay siege to ihe en- 
emy's real stronghold, only to lose the 
whole game; for Gen. Beauregard evac- 
uated and went off on the cars before 
Old Halleck had scarcely fired a shot. 
After that he was called to Washing- 
ton and Genls. (Jrant, Sherman, Rose- 
crans and others given a chance. 

From here we were in the part of the 
army sent to garrison Nashville under 
Genl. Negley, where we remained 
from July, 1862 to June, 1863. We 
were on duty there during the battle of 
Stone River, and went out toward Mur- 
freesboro, but only as support to Rose- 
cran's army. 

June 24, 1863 when the campaign for 
Chat' anooga commenced, as Rosecran's 
army advanced and took possession of 
the country, our regiment garrisoned 



145 



several places alon? the railroad lead- 
ing to ChattanoogH, Stevenson, the 
i^^.q^aIchee Valley-, and up and down 
the Tennessee river, and wherever the 
line of cooamuniCfttioa was in danger 
of raids from rebel cavalry, there we 
tried to protect. We had no hand in 
the Chickamauga battle, but when Mis- 
sionary Eidge was fought our whole 
regiment was sent with Genl. Sherman 
to the relief 'of Genl. liurnside and bis 
besieged aimy ^t Knoxvilie. When we 
returned from that expedition, which 
we did immediately, we did garrison 
duty DO longer, but went into the main 
army. We camped at Eossville, a few 
miles out from Chattanooga, and in 
December, 1863, our regiment having 
nearly all veteianed, we went home to 
Illinois on furlough. We went to 
Quincy as a regiment, leaving our guns 
and equipments there, and having one 
month's leave of absence. Those who 
did not re-enlist of our regiment, some 
40 or 50, kept the camp and baggage 
wagons at Eossville, so that we re- 
turned there and took our place in 
Genl. J eft C. Davis' division of the 14th 
corp-. 

When Genl. Sherman commenced the 
Atlanta campaign w-e were on hand 
and took a part in the first fighting of 
that 100-days battle. Our regiment 
was commanded by Col. John Tillson. 

After the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 
when Genl. McPherson was killed, we 
were transferred to Genl. Mowers' di- 
vision of the 17th Army Corps. 

We marched with Sherman to the sea 
and had a hand in the taking of Sa- 
vannah. When the campaign against 
the Carolinas commenced our corps 
was transferred by ocean transports 
up the coast to Beauford, South Caro- 
lina, and our operations with others in 
conjunction soon obliged the rebels to 



evacuate Charleston We had a hard 
figlit at lieiito iVbfle; the reoels camd 
dovvQ on us unexpectedly, in force, and 
our brigad'^ in pi.rticuiar with lighting 
at froat a .d rear botii by day and nigut 
had all it cojld do until reinforced to 
save itself fro tn capture. 

'Next afterwacds we fought the reb- 
els at Goldsboro, X. C, then we moved 
to Raleigh and soon after this we heard 
of Lee's surrender and President Lin- 
coln's assassination. We were here 
when the rebel Genl. Johnson surren- 
dered to Genl. Sherman. We marcned 
to Washington, where w^e took part in 
the Grand Review. Then to Louis- 
ville, Ky. on the cars, where, July 4, 
1865, we were mustered out of the U. 
S. service; then to Chicago where, July 
12th, we got our discharges and pay. 

I was a private all the way through, 
and saw about four years' service. I 
returned to Oquaka, 111. This meant 
in Indian 'Yellow Banks,' and during 
the Black Hawk war was where Elisha 
Olcott, Sr. did service in an Iliinois 
regiment for his country. 

I stayed here a couple of years help- 
ing to run the grist mill for father. 

I was married December 25, IbOG to 
Martha Titherington. In the spring 
of 1870 I moved to Cedar county, Iowa 
where I stayed two years, farming; 
then, having a brother, Enoch IIol- 
lingsworth, in Osage county, Kansas, 
I moved down there. He lived in Junc- 
tion township. I landed there October 
19, 1872 with my wife and three chil- 
dren. Not finding very much to do 
there, I went over to Peterton and en- 
gaged in the coal business. I lived 
near there and followed farming a lit- 
tle, and hauling coal to Lyndon for 
four years. Then I moved to Lyndon, 
buying a house and several lots over 
near Mrs. Yarner's place. There I 



146 



lived until April, 1884, when I built and 
moved to the west side of town where 
I have lived ever since. 

Eight children have been born to us, 
seven of which are alive and tive of 
which live at home. 

Effie Jane Hollingsworth' the eldest, 
married Lee Smell, who abandoned her 
and since which time she and her child 
have lived at home with me. 

Harry D. died, aged 4, at Peterton 

John Clinton, who has recently mar- 
ried and set up for himself, lives here 
in Lyndon. 

Edith May, who married 011a Flem- 
ing, lives here in Lyndon. 

Barton Leslie, at home. 

Kachel Vestal, at home. 

Myrtle Ivey, at home. 

Murray Blaine, the baby, age 13, at 
home. 



THE LYNDON BANDS. 

Of the original band formed in July 
or August, 1880, four members only 
seem to be left at Lyndon: — Hod Whit- 
man, Will Olcott, Tony Richardson and 
Oil Deaver. 

Hod Whitman had most of the pa- 
pers and records of this organization in 
a drawer in their drug store acd they 
wtre ail burned up in the big fire of 
January 31, 1895, but by a month's 
searching among old papers and sever- 
al talks with various members of the 
different bands in the 17 years that 
have elapsed since the history ccm- 
menced, I glean the following, and if I 
am in error I desire to be corrected: 

Nothing adds to patriotism more 
than good bands which are willing to 
turn out and play upon the occasions 
that draw our citizens together. 

A great many individual musicians 
are found in places, who, having chang- 



ed their abode, are lost from their or- 
ganizations, but who, with their past 
experience and their horns are of great 
assistance in towns that regularly 
maintam a band. I cannot begin to 
tell the number of such persons who 
have played here with our Lyndon 
bands in the last 16 years; very often 
helping us all out of bad predicaments. 
I can say truly that this town baa sup- 
ported bands as faithfully as it has 
churches; $500 is a low estimate for the 
cost of the instruments, uniforms, wag- 
on, year's instruction and other outlay 
before a good body of players can feel 
satistied to go before the public and 
play on a big occasion. $50 or $75 
taken in by festivals or stand privil- 
eges three or four times a year is the 
full extent of public help. The burden 
falls mainly on their own purses, and 
the many hours spent in practice 
would almost fit an individual for 
teaching. 

I expect that the want of a band of 
their own in Lyndon was made mani- 
fest about July 6, 1880, when the 
Knights of Honor laid to rest the first 
member who died out of their organi- 
zation, viz: Elias A. Barrett. The com- 
mittee managing the funeral obsequies 
hired the Quenemo band of probably a 
dozen members, to come up and help. 

Thereby hangs a tale : Mr. Barrett was 
laid to rest and long before the c'ose of 
that summer day the Quenemo band 
went on their way home by C. R.Green's 
place down on the Quenemo road. At 
Henry Johnson's the boys found it nec- 
essary to stop and have a drink— of 
water. Having lately moved on from 
Ohio with a car load of traps, I had put 
in a few barrels of four year old cider 
to see if I couldn't work up a market 
here for ray car load that I had left be- 
hind. I lived opposite Johnson's, and 



wheD they stopped, knowing the driver the country, so that afterwards when I 
and desiring to transact some business, drove up lo a noan's house to sell my 
1 went out to the wagon while the rest stuff he could tell me at once whether 
were in HeLr>'s jard. At the close of they wanted it or not, and in two years 
my business I told Mr. Wilson, the dri- I sold and traded away over one tbous- 
er, who was also a member of the band, and dollars' worth of that shipment of 
that if the boys wished to sample my Ohio cider vinegar. 
sour cider to invite them down, and I Asking the reader's pardon for this 
returned to the house. Directly, while long digression fiom Lyndon band his- 
I was at supper, hearing a noise of ap- tory, 1 will go back to July, 1880. 
proaching footsteps 1 looked up the Bob Miller, Hod Whitman, Tony 
path and bttel:! the band in single file Richardson, Will Olcott, Oil Deaver 
bearing down upon me. ISo I got a and a lot of others, consulting with the 
gallon measure and a glass and went to Lyndon merchants and prominent cit- 
a barrel of my best cider vinegar and izens, concluded that a band could be 
drew for them to drink. Knowing the organized, and a subscription paper 
one Wilson— although there were other was passed around, the citizens giving 
Wilson brothers in the band about as S50 or $60. The band boys pledged the 
numerous as the Swisher brothers in rest. W. C. Chattield, leader of the 
the present Lyndon Sons of Veterans Burlingame band, negotiated with 
Band— I handed it to him and he down- Julius Bauer, Musical Instrument deal- 
ed the tumbler full at about two gulps, er of Chicago, for eleven instruments — 
Some of the others gagged upon tasting brass horns and a snare drum, for which 
it, but not to be bluffed off with two Lyndon paid $162.C0. The services of 
dozen eyes watching them, downed Harry Dunn were procured for the 
theirs, and with the exception of Dr. first instructor. After a month or two 
Ashby, who was then a member, every Frank Holmes was hired as an instruc- 
last one took their whole tumbler full tor, followed by James W. Bain, all 
of sour cider. When it came to the that fall of 1880. 

second round Wilson took his by hard The names of the members of the 
work; the rest declined. Band in 1880 were about as follows: 

The boys had left their horns up in Tcm Dempster, W^ill Miller, 
the wagon, jjnd not having to use much Bob. A. Miller, E. D. Atwell, 
wind to get back to their conveyance, P,^^9' P^^^er, Horace Whitman, 

carnedawaystraightfaces,butlwas '^^^^f^^l^it"' wjll ^v£f "' 
told by some of them and others that Fred Jenness, Ed Atwell, Jr. 

they gagged and "heaved jonah'' all Perhaps a few extracts from the Lyn- 
the way home to Quenemo. don Leader of those days of 1880-'81-82 

After that whenever they passed my of which a member of the band was 
place, be it night or day, I was always one of the proprietors, may give us a 
treated to a series of toots and cat glimpse of past history in as condens- 
wailings that let me know that they ed a form as any way. 
were still alive and holding "Vinegar "Christmas eve, 1880, the Lyndon 
Green's" treat in lively remembrance. Cornet Band attends the Presbyterian 

The joke thus unceremoniously per- Church festivities and discourses sweet 
petrated advertised my goods all over music." 



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Janiary 1, 1881.— "The L. C. B. is 
making rapiil ad vai cement under the 
leddeiship of J. W. Bain." His sejvij- 
es are rein gaged aLoiit this time for an- 
other term. 

Jan. 15th — "The band played on the 
streets in honor of the Knights of Hon- 
or the evening of ihe 10th when it was 
so cold that their instrumen' s froze up." 

Feb. 5:h.— '-A citizeu complains about 
the couuty sheriff, Harry bmitb, shut- 
ting the band out of the court house, 
although Tom Dempster, a county dep- 
uty assures him that the coal is of his 
own furnishiag." 

February 12th number contains a 
piece of poetry written by the editor, 
Ed Vail, which is too good to languish 
in the old newspaper files "\Nhen the 
band blows." 

OUR BOYS. 

"Who will say they're not proud of "our 

boys?" 
Be they boys in blue or boys who blow, 
But the "boys that blow" not the boys 

in blue, 
Are the boys I wish to talk of, to you. 

Xow Lyndon could not boast, you know 

Of a man or boy six months ag >, 

AV ho could pick up a hern aLd run the 

sca'e, 
And run it correctly and neyer ffcil. 

Now who can say they're i-:ot proud of 

"our boys?" 
When in six months' time they have 

learned from a noise 
To make music either loud or soft, and 

sweet to hear 
As the gentle zephyr wafts it back to 

our ear. 

Then stand firm by our "boys who 
blow," 

As you did by the boys in blue. 
For our "boys who blow" have to bat- 
tle you know, 

As well as the boj s in blue in that long 
long ago. 

Our band it is an honor, our band it is 
all right. 



^^o boAV av\ay boys, blow with all your 
migl t. 

But don't lote courage or faint by the 
way. 

For the L( rd will provide you some- 
where to play. ' 

Three cheers for "our boys!" Hurrah 

for the right! 
It will always conquer wrong, no matter 

how raid the fight. 
So stand firm by ''our boys," as firm as 

you car, 
And say in one voice, w'e are proud of 

our band. 

Mar. 12, '81— The L. C. B. held an en- 
tertainment in Prof. Whitman's new 
building, which was used several 
months thereafter for an opera house, 
until he got his stock of drugs. The 
band entertainment netted them §60.50. 
A contest was gotten up by which the 
prettiest lady present was to be awarded 
on vote a handsome pair of vases. Miss 
Lou Munger, of Carbondale, escorted 
thither by F. Bowman, was the success- 
ful contestant. 

June 30, '81— The band elects their 
officers: Pres., E. D. Atwell; Vice Pres., 
G. L. Wales; Secy., R. A. Miller; Treas., 
H. S. Whitman; Leader, Jas. W. Bain. 

This summer the Osage County Bat- 
taUoa is organized and as Col. H. K. 
McConnell and W. W. Morii-, two of 
its chief promoters held office at the 
county seat, the L. C. B. becomes en- 
thused with the military spirit in Lyn- 
don and vote to attend the State Fair 
and Old Soldiers' Reunion at Topeka, 
September 15th. They buy themselves 
uniform caps, and after the doings at 
Topeka go to Lawrence and play for 
Gen. Weaver, the Greenback orator 
from Iowa. Also after their return 
home turning out to escort Weaver 
into Lyndon, where he spoke. 

Thanksgiving time, 1881.— Will S. 
Olcott, who has just got home from his 



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wedding lour aud is a member of the 
band, gets a good serenade and in turn 
sets out a tine supper for the band. J. 
W. Bain, who for 13 months has been 
instTLctor ot the band, having accepted 
a position down at Ossawatomie, re- 
signs. He has been a good teacher and. 
all regret his approaching departure. 

]^OTE BY AUTHOR.— He goes away 
only for a short time, when, not liking 
it, he returns and takes a cornet in the 
band again. 

The Thansgiving festival netted the 
band S50. 

January, "82, L. M. Eoth, a dentist 
and a good musician, comes to Lyndon 
and in time joins the band. 

May 18, '82 another band festival, 860. 

June 22nd, the band boys beginning 
to buy new horns— better ones, made 
out of silver. H. H. Richardson buys 
a fine cornet; a fine snare drum bought. 

June 23. They attend in a body the 
closing day school picnic down at the 
Knouff district, Miss Ella Gibson, 
teacher, 

July 4, '82. Band goes to Reading, 
get ^60 for their services, and all ex- 
penses. 

Aug. 31— The L. C. B. and Osage 
City Martial bands furnish the music 
for the mass meeting in Lyndon when 
Senator P. B. Plumb addressed the old 
soldiers, and the Osage County Battal- 
ion held election of oflicers and arrang- 
ed to go to Topeka. 

Sept. 15th to 20th, the L. C.B. attends 
the Topeka Old Soldiers' Reunion with 
the Osage County Battalion, and the 
16th enters the ring to contest for the 
2nd musical prize, some six bands com- 
peting, which they failed to secure. 

After the boys all got home the Bur- 
lingame paper of the 21st in comment- 
ing on the band playing at Topeka said 
that the Lyndon and Burlingame bands 



playtd among the lest and that instead 
of the bands at "Waterville and Wil- 
liamsburg carrying away the first and 
second prizes respectively, it should 
have been the Burlingame and Lyndon 
bands. 

The Lyndon paper of that time re- 
marks that so many are gone away at- 
tending the doiugs at Topeka that the 
streets look deserted. The days prior 
to this had been ones of hot winds, the 
record reading, Sept. 12th, liot winds 
and dust; 13th, ditto; 14th, ditto, ther- 
mometer lU in the shade. These hot 
winds cut the corn crop very short, the 
price being from 50 cents to 75 cents 
here, and 75 cents to $1 in St. Louis. 

The fall of 1882, one time the band 
was out over to Osage City with four 
horses making a good show, when the 
Osage City photographer called them 
to halt and took their pictures just as 
they were in the wagon. Hod Whit- 
man says that he has one of the pic- 
tures and the following persons show 
up in it: Tom Dempster, Lew Dan- 
hauer, Frank Whitman, Horace Whit- 
man, Rob Miller, L. M. Roth, Jim Ay- 
ers, Fred Jenness and J. H. Smith. 

I cannot follow the band thus closely 
any longer. July 4, 1883 Osage City 
had a big county celebration, among 
other things inviting the several bands 
of the county to play for a prize there, 
but when the L. C. B. desired to enter 
the contest the judges rule* them out 
because they had Jesse Cowan and 
James Smith in their ranks, who, the 
Osage City, folks claimed were mem- 
bers of other bands. Jesse Cowan had 
moved to Lyndon the fall of 1 882. He 
had been a member of the Williams- 
burg band at the Topeka contest. 
These two players had taken the place 
of either two sick members or some 
who had moved away, and when the 



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Osage City folks objected, our band got 
so hot tliey offered to stake ^100 upon 
their bemg the best players in the coun- 
ty, then and there putting up S25, and 
to have the contest come off in 30 days. 
But no one took them up. 

Here is a list of our band members 
present on that occasion: 

J. W. Bain 1st E b, 

Jas. Smith 2nd E b, 

H. H. Richardson Ist B b, 

Frank Whitman 2Dd B b, 

L. M. Roth, leader Alto' B b, 

Fred Jenness Solo alto, 

Will West 1st Alto, 

R.A.Miller 2nd Alto, 

Geo. Miller 1st Tenor, 

Jesse Cowan 2nd Tenor, 

Lew Danhauer Baritone, 

H. S. Whitman Tuba, 

Ed Atwell Bass drum, 

Ed Barrett Tenor drum. 

They were nicely uniformed, and I 
remember it was with feelings of pride 
that I saw them at this Osage City cel- 
ebration. Lyndon turned out a great 
throng to accompany them there and 
join by invitation in the doings. We 
got treated miserably, all of us, and af- 
ter that Lyndon and Osage Ci-y ex- 
changed no more celebrations, and 
thereaiter Lyndon planned go d rous- 
ing celebrations at home and gave the 
band the benefit of the proceeds. 

The band did not go up to Topeka 
that fall, for some reason. 

Nov. 8, 1883, the band was called on 
to foUoJsr the remains of one of their 
members to the grave. Will West died 
on the 6.h from the effects of being 
burned in an explosion of gasoline. This 
was the first death of any of their num- 
ber, and there is always a sadness ev- 
ery decoration day as the band in each 
succeeding year has gathered around 
Will's grave to play their dirge. Now 



of late years Tom Dempster adds an- 
other grave to their list. 

Some time at the beginning of 1884 
the band reorganized and took the 
name of the Pes t, calling themselves 
the "Lyndon Post No. 19 G. A. R., 
Band." 

There was a good deal going on this 
year of 1884— The Fourth, Decoration 
Day, Soldiers' Reunion at Leavenworth 
and late in the fall a county soldiers' 
reunion at Lyndon, the soldiers and 
the band all working in harmony. 

Decoration Day, 1884, Harry Ford 
having that year set up a gallery in 
Lyndon, took 4 pictures. Two of the 
flower girls, one of the Post and one of 
the Band. 

The band stood in a circle in front of 
Richardson's hotel, and the following 
members show in that picture: 
F. H. Coney, H. H. Richardson, 

Frank Whitman, Fred Jenness, 
James H. Ayers, Robt. A. Miller, 
George Miller, Jesse Cowan, 

James H. Smith, Horace Whitman, 
Walter Kirby, Tom Dempster, 

Ed Barrett. 

BALD HEAD BAND. 

Space will admit of no further histo- 
ry. .The hand went down by removals, 
but the members remaining here have 
always managed to get out a band, 
small or great, for Decoration days and 
the band at present in Lyndon under 
the leadership of M. L. Laybourn, 
known as the '"Bald-Head Band," is 
nothing more than a continuation of 
the old Lyndon Post Band of 1884, with 
some old and som^ new members. 

They were organized about May 1, 
1896, -about as follows: 
H. S. Whitman, W. S. Olcott, 
H. H. Richardson, C.S. Alexander, 
W. A. Greene, J. M. Cowan, 



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J. II. Buck man, L. T. Ilussey, 
Wm. Rock, Dick^Miies, 

J. H. Newell, K. C. Buckman, 

Kit WiJson, FloycVPJeasaQt, 

^M. L. Laybourn, Xeader. 

THE^SONS OFVETERANS BAND. 

The want of , a ■"good strong; band 
amoDg^the young men^was^made mani- 
fest in the^summer of^l894, and not.de- 
siring tojeorganize any old band,. but 
to^build up a new one ^entirely, a party 
of young men organized August 9, '94, 
and hired M. L. Laybourn for their in- 
structor for one year. 

Decoration Day, 1895 the Sons of Vet- 
erans Band, as they styled themselves, 
acquitted themselves so well that the 
old soldiers went to them and olfered 
to help get up a big "Fourth of July," 
and let the band furnish the program 
and have all the receipts from sale of 
stand rights, etc. The day came, and 
everything was carried out to perfec- 
tion until about 3 p. m., when a sudden 
rain storm came up and dispersed the 
crowd, but as it was, quite a snug sum 
was realized to help along the band ex- 
penses. 

August 9, "95 the band found it not 
best to longer hire Mr. Lay bourn's ser- 
vices as instructor, and since that time 
they have got along very well under 
the leadership of iSam'i J. Jones, and 
when out on public occasions make as 
good a showing as ever any band has 
here in Lyndon. 

The following names are about a cor- 
rect list of those who were in the band 
July 4, 1895: 
J. D. Swisher, Charles Daugherty, 

E. A. " Wm. Rock, 
F.C. " L. T. Hussey, 

F. T. " W. A. Greene, 

B. H. « Clint Hillingsworth 

John Capper, Bart " 



Dewey Gardner, O. A. Fleming, 
Chas. Wilson, Roy Wright, 

Gene " Stewart Gill, 

Milt Rogers. 
There have been several who were in 
the band a short time whose names I 
have not been able to get. Upon re- 
quest the present leader of the band, S. 
J . Jones, gave me a list of the mem- 
bers as they were New Years day, 1897. 
List of the present members of the 
Sons of Veterans Band, Lyndon: 

Stewart Gill Picalo, 

Roy Wright Picalo, 

A. B. Thurman E b Cornet, 

Fred S wisher Solo B b Cornet, 

S. J. Jones Solo B b Cornet, 

Bert Swisher 1st B b, 

John Widney 2nd B b, 

Chas. Wilson Solo Alto, 

Ollie Fleming 1st Alto, 

Millard Rogers 2nd Alto, 

Eugene Wilson. . .Slide Trombone, 

A. H. Gardner 1st Tenor, 

Clint Hollingsworth 2dd Tenor, 

H. P. Corothers 3rd Tenor, 

Frank Swisher Baritone, 

Chas. Dougherty 1st Eb Bass, • 

Ed Swisher 2nd Eb Bass, 

Sigel Gill Snare Drum, 

Bart Hollingsworth. . .Bass Drum. 

Officers of the S. of V. Band. 
Board of directors, Charles Wilson, 
Fred Swisher and Clint Hollingsworth; 
President, A. H. Gardner; Secretary, 
Frank Swisher; Treasurer, Bart Hol- 
lingsworth; Leader, S. J. Jones. 



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JOEL H. BUCKMA.N. 
8th Commander of Lyndon Post No. 19. 

Joel H. Buckman was born Octo- 
ber 1, 1844 in Sangamon county, 111. 
At the age of 6 his parents moved to 
Tazwell county, wheie their home was 
ever after. Joel was the oldest in a 
family of eight children, seven of 
which are alive to-day. He lived and 
worked at home on a farm near Green 
Valley until he enlisted. He only had 
such educational advantages as the 
common district schools of those early 
days afforded, and was just about go- 
ing away to school when Lincoln's call 
for 300,000 volunteers in July, 1882 was 
sounded over the northern land. 

The 7 1st, 72Qd and 73rd Illinois were 
early organized, and in the race as to 
which should first be ready for the 
mustering officer, the 73rd was ahead. 

J. H. Buckman enlisted July 21, '62 
at Delavan, III., in Capt. Wilder B. M. 
Colts' company— Co. B, 73rd 111., and 
gathered immediately at Camp Butler 
near Springfif^ld, where their regiment 
was organized, and August 21, '62 mus- 
tered into the U. 8. service, the 71st 
and 72nd coming in behind them one 
or two days. 

The 73rd was known as the "preacher 
regiment," a good many preachers be- 
ing both officers and members; and on- 
ly March 4, 1897 I saw a mention of the 
death of Capt. Peter Wallace, age 84, at 
Chicago, member of the 73rd II!., the 
"preacher regiment." 

Within a week of their muster into 
the service they left for Dixie— August 
27th — landing at Louisville, Ky., where 
ttiey stayed until Sept. nth, when the 
rebel Genl. Kirby Smith made his raid 
toward Cincinnati, O , they were im- 
mediately sent to Covington to assist 
in the defense. After the danger was 



over here, the regiment with many oth- 
ers was hurried back, Sept. 28th, to 
Louisville, and went right on toMul- 
draugh's Hill to head off the rebel Gen. 
Bragg and help the old troops get into 
Louisville. In the race northward the 
rebels would have captured Louisville 
had it not been for the new levies ral- 
lying promptly to its rescue. 

Here at Louisville their regiment 
was assigned to Col. P. Schaeffer's 
Brigade, Genl. Phil. H. Sheridan's Di- 
vision, Gilbert's Corps, but later on 
commanded by Alex McCook. 

October 1st, his 18th birthday, they 
marched out to meet the rebels in bat- 
tle but did not corner Old Bragg until 
the 8th, when at Perryville the 73rd III. 
got into the engagement good and 
strong, and received its first baptism in 
blood. 

Prom there they marched and coun- 
ter marched with Rosecran's army on 
down to Edgefield Junction, where the 
Division stopped, Nov. 7th, while most 
of the army went on beyond Nashville 
and camped. 

When the railroad and tunnel at 
Gallatin were repaired, Sheridan mov- 
ed his division to Camp Mill Creek, 7 
miles southeast of Nashville in readi 
ness for Rosecrans' advance to give 
battle at Murfreesboro. But here we 
have to stop and follow Comrade Buck- 
man's story another way, for measles 
claimed him now from his command, 
and Hospital No. 14, Nashville and 
Sheridan's convalescent camp tivo or 
three miles from the city, was his 
home several months. After measles 
came the dreaded army disease, chron- 
ic diarrhoea, which so reduced him that 
he was given a discharge May 4, 1863- 
But unable to travel alone, he would 
have died right there at Nashville, had 
not his father, Mr. C. P. Buckman, come 



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on from Illinois and helped him home. 

He remained at home until Sept., '64, 
when he re-enlisted in his old Co. B, 
73rd 111 , and joined them at Nashville. 
The regiment had all this time been in 
the main army under Sheridan in Genl. 
Schaett'er's Brigade of the 20th Corps. 

October 20, 1863, after the battle of 
Chickamauga, in the reorganization of 
the Cumberland Army, Newton com- 
manded the Div. and Sieadman the 
Brigade, but when Buckman joined 
his regiment at Nashville Genl. Op- 
dycke commanded the 1st Brig, and 
Genl. W. L. Elliott the Division, being 
the 2nd of the 4th Corps, Genl. T. J. 
Wood being the Corps commander to 
the end of the war. 

The regiment had gone through all 
the battles and needed recruits bad 
enough. Buckman had been in their 
ranks before, but there were lots of 
others who had not, and the battle of 
Nashville gave them all a chance to 
distinguish themselves. This was Dec. 
15th and 16th, and at its close the union 
troops pursued the defeated rebels 
down tothellarpeth Shoals on the Ten- 
nessee river, where Hood escaped to 
the south, and Buckman's Division en- 
camped at the beautiful city of Hunts- 
ville, along with other parts of Genl. 
Thomas' army. Early in February 
most of che 4th corps were transported 
on the cars up into East Tennessee, 
above Knoxville, where they were ready 
to head Genl. Lee off if he should at- 
tempt to liee that way from Bichmond. 
Here the end of the war found them. 

The total number of men, including 
officers and recruits, mustered in the 
73rd Regt. of HI. Vol. Inft. from the 
beginning to the end of its service, 
was 972. 

At the close of the war the regiment 



found that during their three years' 
serv.ce they had lost as follows: 

Total killed on battlefield 53 

Total died of wounds 45 

Total died of disea^ e 102 

Total died in prison, slarva'ion tte, 16 
Discharged before end of war by 

reason of wounds 36 

Discharged before end of war by 

reason of disability 146 

Transferred and promoted to oth- 
er branches of service 129 

Resigned service 29 

Dismissed 1 

Dishonoraby discharged 1 

Deserted, 31 

Unaccounted for 6 

Missing and supposed killed 4 

Mustered out at close of war 373 

Total 972 

The muster out at Nashville in May 
and discharge of the 73rd 111. Inft., 
June 3, 1865 at Camp Butler, 111 , made 
J. H. Buckman a free man once more 
and not yet 21 years old. 

He farmed there in Illinois at home 
until March, 1870, when he came to 
Burlingame, Kansas an.d accepted a 
position as clerk in Wm. Smith's store. 

Oct. 9, 1872 he was married to Lida R. 
Richardson, at Burlingame. In 1874 
he went back with his wife to Illinois 
on a visit, but settled down there and 
remained until 1885, when he returned 
to Kansa?, settling down at Lyndon, 
where he has lived ever since. He was 
elected to the office of county clerk in 
1889, fiUing it the term of 1890-91, but a 
change in the politics of many of his 
friends in 1892 caused the office to go 
to the Populist party afterwards. 

Mr. Buckman has one child, Roy C. 
Buckman, born October 4, 1880. 

Comrade Buckman has always been 



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a well posted man in the G. A. R. rit- 
ual and has frequently filled offices in 
the Grand Army, 

Being a good singer, his services 
have always been in demand in the 
Glee Clubs of Lyndon on all times and 
occasions. Ever since his adven': here 
he has been active in the Presbyterian 
church work, and acted as the superin- 
tendent of the Sunday school about ten 
years at one stretch. 

With this brief synopsis of Comrade 
Backmao's life history, the historian 
leaves him to future historians to write 
up more fully. 



A PICTURE 

Of Historic Interest to the People of 

Lyndon. 

Some of the G. A. R. boys of 1881, 



Several months after Harry Ford Grst 
established his photograph gallery in 
Lyndoa, on Decoration Day, 1884 he 
took several pictures out doors of va- 
rious gatherings. The one I propose to 
speak about now is a picture of about 
33 old soldiers belonging to the Post, 
taken in front of the post office, then in 
the west end of Lew Sargeant's old 
bank building, the site of which is now 
occupied by the Journal Block. Here 
all who happened to be present, which 
was not half the old soldiers of Lyn- 
don, fell into line, firing squad to the 
right, and with a background of the 
Richadson Hotel, the Averi'l Hall and 
Steele's harness shop to shoot against, 
Harry Ford got a splendid picture of at 
least 28 faces. 

Dr. E. B. Fenn and I being tall, got 
put over behind, so that only the upper 
part of the Doctor's face shows in the 
picture. In the foreground John II. 
Howe, D. H. Hanbauer, Josiah R. 
Drew, Fred Downs and Oscar Keenan, 



being officers of the post that year, and 
in front took splendid pictures, Wm, 
Haas held the colors. The firing 
squad, consisting of John M, Barnes, 
Clark E. Henderson, James Wells, Eli- 
jah Wil i^m?, John Lefiier, John Hoop- 
er and George Thomas in the front 
rank and Amos Morris, S. L, McWhln- 
ney, Archibald Keff, N". Y. Buck, B\sq\ 
Albaugh, George McMillen and Phillip 
Leffler all show up v/ell. Grouped at 
the left of the colors were R. R. Glass,, 
Fred Siipar, Patrick Daugherty Elijah 
Hedges, Dr. E, B. Fenn, Milton Whiu- 
rey, Br. B. H. Chittend^en, 0. R. Green, 
David F. Coon, Daniel Dodg?^, a visit- 
ing comrade from over on the Dragoon 
and squarely behind Fred Downs stood 
Abel Primmer, known only by we who 
have preserved the tradition. Tv/o or 
three others were also screened from 
a good view, so that no one now knows 
who they were. Several of the bystand- 
ers' faces in the rear show up good not- 
ably W. P. Bailey. 

Thirteen years have elapsed. Of the 
30 v/hose faces or forms we knovY in 
that picture, eleven only are present 
here; five are dead, 14 have removed, 
ten of them to other states. 

In looking over the roll of the Post 
members of two years later — 1886, 1 see 
that out of a membership then of 88 in 
good standing in the G. A.. R,, to-day, 
only eleven years later, only 40 remain 
in the vicinity of Lyndon, one half, or 
possibly a few over half being now 
members of the G, A. R. Sixteen have 
removed to other states, 20 to other 
places in Kansas, and 12, so far as we 
know, of that number are dead. 

Their average age then was 47 years, 
Silas Tower being: 70 and Tom Demp- 
ster 35, Adding ten years to their ages 
then would make an estimated average 
age now of old soldiers of 57 years. 

0, R. Green, 



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THE TRIALS OF ANjAKMY KECRUIT. 

^Vho would not b8 a So.dier Boy, 

To seek adventures like Eob iioy! 
And as o'er countries I would roam, 
I'd never think of going back home, 
lielrain. 
A soldier's lite for me. 
So glorious and so free. 

Thus mused a farmers boy one day 
As by himself he turned the hay; 
And he thought if he was only in some 
battle 
How he would make his musket rat- 
tle. 

A soldier boy I would be 
So happy and so free. 

Away to the war I'll strike a bee line, 
And on the rolls my name I'll sign. 
My old clothes I'll give to you 
And m their place don soldier blue. 
For a soldier I'm bound to be, 
ISo to all, a good bye for me. 

In my soldier suit how nice I can march. 

It is no citizen's suit stilf with starch. 

No more my feet shall I abuse, 

Said he as he put on the army shoes. 

A soldier boy, O write to me! 

Now Old Dixie I'm bound to see. 

Away down south in Dixie Land 

He found there his own chosen band. 

And as he took his place in the ranks 

He thought not of old soldiers' pranks. 

For a soldier he was going to be. 

And the rebels he Wcis going to see. 

As he had been riding many a day 
Soon on his blanket he slumbered 
away; 
And so very sound was his sleep 
That the bovs stole his blanket from 
under his feet. 
A soldier boy was he, 
And old soldiers tricks didn't see. 

For roll call, loudly the drums did beat, 
And wildly our soldier started from 
his sleep. 
The Eebs! The Rebs! Give me a gun! 
And I'll g"* out and make th°m run, 
A brave soldier I want to be. 
So the first lieb, show him to me. 

It is only roll call the sergeant replied. 
As turning round the boys' fun he 
did chide. 



Go back to bed and remember that the 

drum abd lile 

Help old soluiers to enjoy camp life. 

A wue soldier you will never be 

If old soldiers tricks you don't see. 

It Wr,s heie he fust saw a hard-tack, 
Aiid mauy a one did he try to crack. 

And Ills canteen had such a queer spout 
It bothered him to make the water 
run out. 

Then that haversack hung by his side, 
Wiih tuch rations to delight a sol- 
dier's piidt-; 

And his great big knap-sack— 

Which to carry almost broke his back. 

His ca» fridge box and straps &eemed so 

heavy, 
As 'round they girted him for battle 

ready; 
And with that heavy musket on his 

arm 
He almost felt sorry he had ever left 

ti'.e farm. 

Thus our new recruit, you see. 

Was learning fast a soldier to be. 

He also experienced that delightful 
ser.salion 
That happens to soldiers in every sta- 
tion* 
As over him the grey backs began to 
crawl 
He much preferred to face the ene- 
my's ball. 

You'd have laughed to see him warm 

afternoons 

Out sc inning his shirt and pantaloons 

Bat he l^arnea soon that boiling in the 

camp kettle 

His clothes, soon the lice and nits 

would settle. 
It almost makes me blush gentlemen 
To think of what we endured then. 

The many weary days of fatigue work 
and drill. 
It seems as if a recruit's patriotism it 
would kill. 
But life in the "Sunny South" on the 
picket line 
Or writing home from camp all be- 
guiled away the time. 

One day orders were quickly issued to 
the camp 
For all able bodied soldiers to get 



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ready for a tramp. 
And oar recruit buc'iled on his armour 
for a tight; 
Was it fear made him tremble when 



A few miles they marched double-quick 
Theri formed in batt e line along a 
creek; 

And as the shells and bullets did rattle, 
Began the new recrnii'd first battle. 

Oar recruit turned out to be a brave 
lad, 
And beside the old soldiers did n't 
act bad. 
iSoon the boys welcomed him into their 
mess, 
For he's an old soldier along with the 
rest. 

DAVID F. COON, 
Eleventh Commander of Lyndon Post. 

D. F. Coon \\as born January 3, 1847 
in Alien county, Ohio. He was raised 
there and was too young to go into the 
war at first, being only 14 years old 
when it commenced. 

He enlisted February 29, 1864 as a re- 
cruit in the old 78th Ohio Vol. Inft., 
which had gone out to the war. 

He joined his regiment at Chatta- 
nooga about a month later, in time to 
get some knowledge of military tac- 
tics before Geni. Sherman started out 
on his Atlania campaign. May 4, 1864. 

D. F. Coon belonged to the 3rd Brig- 
ade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps. 

Comrade Coon was is all that 100- 
days' battling that was carried on by 
Sherman's army on that campaign. 

If any one wants to know more let 
him take up some one of the complete 
war histories and read the details. The 
history of one regiment one week was 
in a great measure the history of an- 
other regiment the next week. Sooner 
or later all would have similar experi- 
ences. 

After the taking of Atlanta Com- 



rade Coon was in that part of the army 
that marched with Sherman "down to 
the sea.'' Part of the time at the front 
helping to build roads or engaged in 
skirmisher; then again in the rear he'p- 
ing the wagon trains along. 

Alter the taking of Savannah they 
soon started out on the campaign of the 
Carolinas and he had a hand in the 
Bentonville, Goldsboro and Kaleigh en- 
gagements. They were at Kaleigh 
when news of Lee's surrender came. 

In due time Johnson surrendered to 
Sherman, and the army started on that 
racing march to see which should get 
to Washington first. They went via 
Richmond and up across the battle- 
fields of the PotoniHc army. After 
taking part in the grand review they 
were transferred to Louisville where 
they were mustered out; then back to 
camp near Dayton, Ohio, where they 
were discharged July 15, 1865, and Mr. 
Coon returned home to Albany, Ohio. 
xVs he was yet only a young m'an of 18 
he put in the next three years getting 
a better education t'lere in Ohio. Then 
May, 1869 he cirae to Baldwin, Kansas 
and attended the Baker Univers ty. 
His folks had moved to the northern 
part of Osage county in 1866, so that 
Kansas became Comrade Coon's home. 
The next several years — eight at least 
— after D. F. Coon's advent in Kansas 
was spent by him in teaching school 
in two or three different counties, tak- 
ing in the meanwhile a term or two at 
the state noroaal at Emporia. Finally 
in 1877 he ran for county office, and 
was elected surveyor. 

His mother having died in 1878, he 
bought his father's property and be- 
came a real estate owner of the county 
wnere he has resided ever since, hold- 
ing the office of county surveyor by ap- 
pointment or election several times, 
which office he fills now. 



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WILLIAM RAND, 
12th Commander of Lyudon Post— 1897. 

Born March, 1837, Bloomfield, Jeft'er- 
son county, Ohio. 

I learned the carpenter trade when 
18. I tollowed that 25 years before and 
after the war. I commenced for my- 
self when 21 years old. 

June 6, 18£8 I married Orinda L. 
Chapman, of Letartsville, Meigs coun- 
ty, Ohio, and made my home there 28 
years. We had two boys born to us 
before I went to the war. Harvey L. 
Rand, who resides here in Lyndon, and 
is engaged in business v\ith me, and 
Charles M. Rand, dealer in s'ock at 
Kansas City, Missouri. 

I enlisted May 2, 1863 in Co. C, 140 
O. V. I. I went at once into barracks 
at Gallipolis, Ohio, v.'here we staid a 
week and then were sent to Charleston, 
W. Va. 

Gallipolis is on the Ohio river oppo- 
site the mouth of the Kanawha river, 
and Charleston was perhaps 50 miles 
up the river, and a large portion of 
West Virginia west of tije ASh^gh'-^ny 
mountains, and quite a portion of Vir- 
ginia west of the Blue Rdge mountains 
was drained by the Kanawha river aiid 
its tributaries, such as the Ganley, 
Greenbrier, Bluestone, Little and New 
rivers. The latter taking head in North 
Carolina. All along these rivers be- 
tween these two large ranges of moun- 
tains are smaller ranges and innumera- 
ble valleys settled wiih people, and be- 
fore the war scarcely any railroads, so 
that as the union army penetrated 
these back regions in the m;UQ tains 
their supplies had to be drawn in wag- 
ons to them over rough roads, along 
mountainous streams where the rebel 
bushwhackers could dash in without 
warning and do their work and be off 
again before the otlicer at the head of 



the train could stop them. 

This was the sort of a country that 
our 140th Ohio Inft. had to do their 
service in that season of 1863. Long 
marches of hundreds of miles up into 
these mountainous valleys, guarding 
trains of supplies to some of Genl. 
Crook's army at Meadow Bluffs, when 
every trip some one or more of our 
comrades in the company or regiment 
would be shot down from ambush by 
guerrillas. Little Sewell, Big Sewell 
and Floyd mountains are familiar land 
marks to us. 

At first we camped near Charleston, 
W. Va., at Camp White, taking turns 
in scouting and guarding trains. 

Our Colonel, Robert Wilson, was a 
man held in high regard by his boys. 

Later in the season we moved to 
camp at Meadow Bluffs in Greenbrier 
county, among the mountains, and had 
to draw supplies 200 miles. There 
were perhaps 3,0C0 to 5,000 of us and 
opposed to us were the rebel Generals 
Jenkins and old Ex-Gov. Henry A. 
Wise. W^e had to work in conjunction 
with the union army over in the She- 
nandoah Valley opposing the rebel 
Genl. Early. 

Soon after entering the service a skir- 
mish had taken place, of two or three 
days' duration, at Fayetteville, about 
May 18th to 20th. 

Sometimes the rebel army would 
number 2,500 to 4,000 in W^est Va , and 
then again they crossed over the Alle- 
ghany range into the Shenandoah Val- 
ley, and we would have only bush- 
whackers to fight, and our regiment 
would be scattered by companies for a 
hundred miles. 

I do not know our losses by means of 
the bushwhackers. I do know that our 
regiment would much rather have 
been in one of the grand armies under 



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Rosecrans or Sheridan. But we filled NAMES 

the place assigned ug, and did our duty of old soldiers and sailors 

and when our time was up went back Whose Graves are Decorated in the 

to Gallipolis, Ohio and were mustered Lyndon Cemetery. 

out of the U. S. service, Sept. 3, 1863. — 

I returned to Letartsville and went west side. 

to work at my trade again. James H. Rynerson, Kans., Lot No. 342 

I moved to Eskiidge, Kansas, May S. R. Shoemaker, Illinois, " " 313 

20, 1882. I followed carpentry two Wm. Gibson, Iowa, " " 255 

years; then bought alarm and went in- John Pettigrew, Illinois, " " 257 

to the stock business with my boys. J. H. Crowe, Indiana, " " 201 

We had two girls born to us in Ohio E. A. Barrett, Kau. Militia, " " 94 

after the war: Mamie O. Rand in '66 Geo. W. Herold, N. H., " " 17 
and Daisy W. Rand in '77. Both are 
living. 

Mamie is a stenographer with the 

Kansas Loan and Trust Co., of To- 
peka, where she has been for five years. 

Daisy is studying music in Kansas • 

City. Her home is here. 

My wife Orinda died March 31, 1886 
at Eskridge by reason of a lamp explo- 
sion which covered her with burning 

oil, and though I was near by and man- 
aged to smother the flames, it was not 
until she had received such injuries 

,, ^ , ,. , , , 4. mt EAST SIDE. 

that she died some days later. The ^ ^x. ^ ^ t ^- ^t i/t 4-^t /.^ 

„,, . r^tuT ■ ^ 4. Geo. AV. Oard, Indiana, N. 3^ Lot No. bl 

followiDg October I was married to ^^ -„ -^ ' a t / u u n^ 

^T T • ^ r^ T> 1, * A^u E. B. Eenn, Iowa, S. K 61 

Mrs. Lorinda C. Buchanan, of Athens, . ,,, ^, ' '. ^, ,; ., ,, „_ 

^^^.' ,T .^ 1 ^ ^ \. J 1,-iJ A, \V. Newton, Ohio, ^.% " " 97 

Ohio. My wife had adopted a child ,., , ^., •, t ^ vt i/ « u .^m 

Ai • ..,• ^^ L, 1 V- 1 Fiank Slojiik^r, Ind , N. 3^ " "210 

there in Ohio — Miss Mabel— who be- „, ,,. „.. . t a- u u mr, 

, .,_, , Phillip Wm^ate, It difin^, " "217 

came as one of our own children and ,.. i, /. t ^i a u oo,^ 

^ , ,. 1 ..u Wallace Green, Iidiana, " "230 

has always lived with us. ,, . . , ,„ ,^ ,, .. oro 

^ ^ -.o -,n^- X ^ • i-u Kobt. J. AVynue, Kansas, " "258 

February 13, 189iD I engaged in the -r. , „. . ir ^/,■^^4-^ ,i u .-^cr, 

. ' ^^ , * ^ ,, Delas V\ atsoD, Kan. Militia, " " 260 

lumber business at Lyndon, eventually 

buying the lumber yard and moving 

my family here and buying other Lyn- 
don property and settling down as one 
of her citizens. AVm. Rand. 

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IN THE CIRCLE. Any one examining this list and de- 

Elisha Olcott, Illinois, Lot No. 579 siring to know more about the history 

Fred S. iSaueis Ohio " " 585 and death of these comrades, will find 

Francis A. Courtney,' III., " " 590 it under their respective states, pages 
John Courtney, W. Va., " " 590 102 to 111 of the Soldiers Roster and 
J. Wm. BrooMs, Idinois, " " 595 History. 

T. E. Dempster Navy " *' 594 Abel Primmer died after that part of 

Simon Siples, Ohio, " '^ 614 t^® Roster was printed. He was in the 

Patrick Dan gherty, Mo. " " 615 '^^rd O. V. I. at the end of the war, and 

Martin Bannon, Ohio, " " 603 removed to Kansas about 1878. He 

Robert S. Flemitg, Illinois, '' " 636 ^^^^ February 28, 1897. His widow 
Geo. W. Pryer Iliinois " " 711 ^^^ ^^'^ ^^ three children live here, 

Fred S. Single'ary, Tenn.,, '* " 712 Mrs. Munroe Stivison beirg one. 
D. H. Danhauer, Oh'o, " " 68(3 ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ cemetery in this town- 

Abram Primmer, Ohio, » " 687 ^bip ^s buried Geo. Wesley Riggs, of 

33rd 111. Inft , who died May 20, 1882. 

His son, Lewis Biggs, lives near there 

with Andrew Peterson. 



ON G. A. R. LOT BELOW^ TIJE CIRCLE. 

Lewis A. Reynolds, Mich., Lot Xo. 450 



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ADVERTISEMENT— ANNALS OF LYNDON. 

The 60 pages of this pamphlet are drawn from a book— "Annals of Lyn- 
don"— that I have been working on for two years. A portion of it is printed. 
and I am working on it all the time, hoping that I may complete ir in another 
year. 22 chapters of it were printed by the Current Remark during 1896. 

Only a small edition, 200 copies more or less, will be printed. It is to be a 
book of 400 octavo, double column pages, just like this pamphlet. It will be 
bound in cloth and sold on subscription. 

I have a vast amount of material, which I have been years in gathering, 
that enables me to give the early history of Lyndon and vicinity. 

I have taken down the narratives of many old settlers, far and near, who 
have been instrumental in the making of the country adjacent to Lyndon. 

I expect to interview many more of the old settlers. 

The book will contain the history of everything that went to make up the 
city that had such a struggle to become the county seat of Osage county, and 
the pleasant home town with its railroads, its several schools, its six churches, 
its numerous orders and lodges, its old soldiers, its bands, and whatever is 
worthy of mention. 

To the settlers for miles in every direction around Lyndon, who through 
25 years have helped in her development, Lyndon is indebted, and mention 
will be made of every one so connected. 

A list of the county officers from the beginning; lists of early settlers; the 
militia rolls; lists of preseat inhabitants, and many other things will be prom- 
inent features of this work— "Annals of Lyndon." C. R. GREEN. 

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